From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 08:14:07 2003 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 61C1416A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:14:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E95D43D6D for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:14:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id hBHGE5ve056807; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:14:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:14:05 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: samy lancher Message-ID: <20031217161404.GC81800@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20031217160458.86196.qmail@web60307.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031217160458.86196.qmail@web60307.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-BETA X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase space for /var/db/ 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: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:14:07 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 17), samy lancher said: > Hello, I have a 4.5 FreeBSD server with mysql database. only 250MB > was allocated to /var/db. Our database is increasing so fast that now > i need to expand the memory for /var/db. I guess one way to do is to > install a new hard drive and then mount it to /var/db. But i would > like to know if there is any other way to solve that problem. Is > making a soft link a good idea. i have 70GB in /usr/ so i would like > to map /var/db/ to some location in /usr/. Please let me know if > anyone has any suggestions. That's what I do. $ ls -l /var/db/pkg lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20 Apr 14 2003 /var/db/pkg@ -> ../../usr/var_db_pkg -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com