Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:28:57 -0800 (PST) From: samy lancher <washville2003@yahoo.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase space for /var/db/ Message-ID: <20031217162857.63697.qmail@web60310.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031217161404.GC81800@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: 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 Hello, thanks for the quick response. Is this a soft link?, what happens to the existing data in /var/db. I do not want to loose that data. thanks, -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard
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