From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 23:24:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B24A16A4CE for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:24:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0072A43D41 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:24:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j0VNOQs00528; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:24:26 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200501312324.j0VNOQs00528@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: pergesu@gmail.com Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:24:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <810a540e05013115135b134ff2@mail.gmail.com> from "Pat Maddox" at Jan 31, 2005 04:13:41 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do I need to make /var bigger? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:24:29 -0000 > > I just got a new dedicated server setup with FreeBSD, and noticed that > the /var partition is only 260MB. That seems like it could be a big > problem, considering all the logs will go in there, as well as mail. > What should I do about this? Do I need to do an OS reload and have a > bigger /var partition made up? I've got an 80 gig hard drive, so > space isn't really an issue. Doesn't make sense to me that I've got a > 77 gig /usr partition, and only 260MB allocated to /var. Probably it would be best. Another or additional thing to do is to have a large 'rest of the disk' partition where you move such things as /var/log and /var/spool and other things that grow in a less than planned pattern and make links to them. I think someone needs to rethink the default sizes that FreeBSD install makes the / (root), /tmp, /usr and /var partitions. The world has moved on. On the other hand, I have never taken the default sizes from the first install I tried, so... ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >