From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 15:27:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4225E153B0 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:27:04 -0500 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D6D@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'slava revutchi' Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: running out of space on / Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:30:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The easiest thing to do is to make directories on another partition that is larger, such as /usr, for tmp and var. Copy everything from /var into /usr/var (cp -Rp /var/* /usr/var) Remove both /tmp and /var dirs. (rm -rf /tmp /var) Then symlink both /tmp and /var to the new directories on /usr. (ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp;ln -s /usr/var /var) This should clear up your problems with the root partition. (This all assumes that both /tmp and /var are not on separate partitions already.) -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: slava revutchi [SMTP:sl@zeus.dnt.md] > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 6:32 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: running out of space on / > > > Hello, > > I have a system which I allocated only 50Mb for the / partition > and now that the user base went above 15K I am running out of space > because passwd, master.passwd, pwd.db and spwd.db live on this partition. > > pwd_mkdb would complain sometimes that it has no room to generate the .db > files. > > Is there a way to increase the size of this partition? If say I have > a 512Mb IDE drive would it solve the problem if I mount it on /tmp? > > Thanks for any advice, > slava. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message