Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 22:17:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: David Oleszkiewicz <davido@labrador.dhs.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var filling up Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110022211570.75806-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011002195847.M13152-100000@labrador.dhs.org>
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, David Oleszkiewicz wrote: > 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 > > Has anyone else seen this problem > The size of the /var partition created when you use the A(uto) command for the size of file systems being created in the FreeBSD slice is 20MB, and that's generally too small. When you reinstall, you should make it bigger. Meanwhile, as root move the contents of the tmp directory to /usr/tmp and then make a symbolic link for tmp in /var pointing to /usr/tmp, so temporary files go to /usr/tmp. The locate database is a little under 1% of total file space used, and you might want to relocate it as well; you might have to then tell the locate command where the database is (you can alias locate so you don't have to repeating do this). See man locate. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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