From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 08:29:02 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 01D7B16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:29:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from web60310.mail.yahoo.com (web60310.mail.yahoo.com [216.109.118.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFED243D5C for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:28:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from washville2003@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031217162857.63697.qmail@web60310.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.201.214.1] by web60310.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:28:57 PST Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:28:57 -0800 (PST) From: samy lancher To: Dan Nelson In-Reply-To: <20031217161404.GC81800@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 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 16:29:02 -0000 Dan Nelson 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