Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:35:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: ron@netassociates.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Clearing /var/mail Message-ID: <19981014113501.C21983@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <75B246B6570BD211815E0060B057850148EF@naeugnt1.netassociates.com>; from ron@netassociates.com on Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:10:29AM -0700 References: <75B246B6570BD211815E0060B05785010355DF@naeugnt1.netassociates.com> <75B246B6570BD211815E0060B057850148EF@naeugnt1.netassociates.com>
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Please copy -questions on your replies. On Tuesday, 13 October 1998 at 10:10:29 -0700, ron@netassociates.com wrote: > On Tuesday, October 13, 1998 2:53 PM, Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@lemis.com] wrote: >> On Tuesday, 13 October 1998 at 1:38:31 -0700, ron@netassociates.com wrote: >>> I have a mail server that has 29727 for mail. >> >> Sorry, I don't understand. Is this the number of blocks in the files >> in the directory? >> >>> It is currently at 78% full. I don't have that much mail setting >>> the mailboxes of the clients. >> >> Sorry, I don't understand that sentence either. Are you saying that >> the file sizes don't add up? If so, do you have files starting with a >> period (they're used by pop). >> >>> It was at 11% a few days ago. What is causing it to be full >> >> Files >> >>> and how can I fix it. >> >> Remove them. > > Sorry, > > I have 29727 1k blocks in the /var directory OK. > The sizes in the individual accounts don't add up to the blocks > used. How far off are they? Consider that file storage is allocated in fragments of between 512 and 2048 bytes. > Yes there are files that are .pop they don't have any bits in them. You mean they're empty? OK. > Can I increase the /var/mail by symlinking to a directory (adding one called > mail) in the /user directory? If so how do I go about doing that. It's difficult to do it with a symlink alone, since that would effectively rename the directory. You can move everything to a different file system and have symlink pointing to the new location; in fact, that's what I do. This is one reason why I recommend to have only one file system on a disk. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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