Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:07:52 -0500 From: ravi pina <ravi@cow.org> To: "Ronald R. Perez" <ronaldp76@earthlink.net> Cc: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>, Mark Pude <markpude@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/ is full Message-ID: <20011108110752.V97368@happy.cow.org> In-Reply-To: <NFBBIOJKCLKODHCCBAALOEMMCBAA.ronaldp76@earthlink.net>; from ronaldp76@earthlink.net on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:58:02AM -0800 References: <20011108103943.U97368@happy.cow.org> <NFBBIOJKCLKODHCCBAALOEMMCBAA.ronaldp76@earthlink.net>
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eek. thats small.
i'm not aware of any easy way of doing it while the
os is running. you'd probably have a easier time
fetching a copy of PartitionMagic[1] and resizing it
that way. second to that, you could reinstall the
os and partition more to your needs. last, and not
really solving the problem, you could create lots
of symlinks for high volume directories. for instance,
move /var/log to /usr/var/log, and /var/mail to
/usr/var/mail.
note that there are potential issues with doing the
former if you boot into single user mode.
also, a general best practice, you should be using
newsyslog(8) on all your log files.
hope this helps.
-r
[1] i have used and love partition magic. it allowed
me to resize a 6 G partition on my laptop with
windows on it into 2 slices so i could install
freebsd. http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/
the disadvantage is its pretty expensive for a
program that you may use once in a blue moon.
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:58:02AM -0800, Ronald R. Perez said at one point in time:
> The same thing is happening to my machine. How do we go about in resizing
> the /var partition? The size of my /var partition is 20MB.
>
> thanks,
> ronald
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of ravi pina
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 7:40 AM
> > To: Jim Mock
> > Cc: Mark Pude; questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: /var/ is full
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:29:43AM -0800, Jim Mock said at one
> > point in time:
> > > On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 at 01:21:24 -0500, Mark Pude wrote:
> > > > Hi--
> > > > I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.4. Recently I started getting a
> > > > message that /var is full. I don't know why this has happened, but it
> > > > prevents me from running certain programs that try and create files in
> > > > /var/tmp. Simple programs like VI just won't save a file after I've
> > > > modified it. I've looked through the documentation and have found
> > > > nothing of use on this problem. If you could could help me, I would
> > > > be pleased.
> > >
> > > How big is your /var? Have you looked to see what's filling it? My
> > > guess is there's either a gigantic email attachment in your mailbox or
> > > you've got a really small /var and lots of log files.
> > >
> > > - jim
> >
> > or lots of stale things in /var/tmp
> >
> > -r
> >
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> > -- Albert Einstein
> >
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