From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 21: 2:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linus.highpoint.edu (linus.highpoint.edu [192.154.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92C037B408 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zhartley@localhost) by linus.highpoint.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f93416U09043 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:01:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:01:06 -0400 From: Zach Hartley To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var filling up Message-ID: <20011003000106.B8905@linus.highpoint.edu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011002195847.M13152-100000@labrador.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011002195847.M13152-100000@labrador.dhs.org>; from davido@labrador.dhs.org on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:01:58PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 .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