From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 6 14:15:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11490 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 14:15:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11480 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 14:14:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA23609; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:44:44 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA10343; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:44:43 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981207084443.O603@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:44:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: hacker@chickenbean.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var partition is out of space, I need more now! What do I do! References: <199812061503.KAA10312@chickenbean.ais-gwd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812061503.KAA10312@chickenbean.ais-gwd.com>; from Charles A. Peters a.k.a. hacker on Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 10:46:41AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 6 December 1998 at 10:46:41 +0000, Charles A. Peters a.k.a. hacker wrote: > I have a major problem. My email/web/ftp server /var partition is running out of > space. I'm having problems with the file system being full, and not being able to > process email. This server is online, and I would prefer not to take it down for > more than a few minutes. > > Is there a way that I can increase the size of my /var partition. I do have plenty > of space on my /usr partition. As others have said, a temporary measure is to symlink directories into other file systems. The real answer is ``don't create more file systems than necessary''. Almost the only reason for a new file system is a new disk. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message