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From: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
To: <absinthe@pobox.com>,
	"Ronald R. Perez" <ronaldp76@earthlink.net>, <ravi@cow.org>,
	"Jim Mock" <mij@soupnazi.org>
Cc: "Mark Pude" <markpude@hotmail.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: /var/ is full
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:12:29 -0600
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Yes,  the default /var is grossly undersized and can result in suprises for
newbies that don't realize how large the logs and mail spool can get on a
busy server, especially when virtual hosting.  I think the default location
for data i.e. MySQL databases is in /var/db  as well, so database
requirements should be considered.  These are things that are not obvious to
the new FreeBSD'er.

In my installation, I made a 2GB /var/log partition just for logs.  That way
if logging get's out of control the mail spool and other processes that rely
on /var are not affected.  I also made /var quite large (6GB) to handle
databases and mail spool. Of course every installation will be different
depending upon the purpose of the Server.

	-Scott





   > I think it should be mentioned that the Auto option in the
   > FreeBSD installer
   > makes quite undersized /var mounts (IMO)... and in fact I
   > think the default is
   > 20MB.
   >
   > I would propose making this default to something 60-100MB in
   > the next RELEASE.
   > 20MB isn't suitable for what most people seem to be doing anymore.
   >
   > Dylan
   >
   > --- "Ronald R. Perez" <ronaldp76@earthlink.net> wrote:
   > > 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
   > >
   >
   >
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