Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:58:02 -0800 From: "Ronald R. Perez" <ronaldp76@earthlink.net> To: <ravi@cow.org>, "Jim Mock" <mij@soupnazi.org> Cc: "Mark Pude" <markpude@hotmail.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: /var/ is full Message-ID: <NFBBIOJKCLKODHCCBAALOEMMCBAA.ronaldp76@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20011108103943.U97368@happy.cow.org>
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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 > > -- > echo "send pgp key" | mail ravi@cow.org > "God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean." > -- Albert Einstein > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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