Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:01:06 -0400 From: Zach Hartley <zhartley@linus.highpoint.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var filling up Message-ID: <20011003000106.B8905@linus.highpoint.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011002195847.M13152-100000@labrador.dhs.org>; from davido@labrador.dhs.org on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:01:58PM -0700 References: <20011002195847.M13152-100000@labrador.dhs.org>
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Around Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:01:58PM -0700, David Oleszkiewicz thus spake the following: > so after about a week and a half of firewall messages and normal logging > messages, my /var fills up. i scan through all the logrotated <log>.gz > files for anything interesting and then i remove them. the thing is the > /bin/df output shows that /var is still above 100%. This means i can't > send or receive mail or anything interesting like that. i reboot and then > everything is ok. > > /var is it's own slice with like 20M > FreeBSD 4.3 You might wish to use a bigger partition for /var, 20 megs will not get you very far. If reinstalling is not an option, I've heard of people suggesting creating a tmp directory on a larger partition and symlinking /var to it. i.e., something like: mkdir /usr/var ; mv /var/* /usr/var ; rmdir /var ; ln -s /usr/var /var don't quote me on that though, I'm sure other (more experienced) people will yell at me for suggesting it. just an idea. hope that helps. Zach -- Zachary Todd Hartley "Attempted murder. Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" --Sideshow Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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