Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 23:29:41 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: Moving /var to /usr/var Message-ID: <010401be2fd9$e3cca180$4c3ce4cf@danco.home>
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That's what I was looking for. Thank you kind sir, and Merry Christmas. --Dan -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dan O'Connor <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998 5:00 PM Subject: Re: Moving /var to /usr/var > > Now the installation is completed, but you may still have some housekeeping to > do. Did you include a /var file system on your disk? In the example, we > didn't. If we don't specify anything else, /var will end up on the root file > system, which isn't enormous. If we leave things like that, there's a very > good chance that the root file system will fill up. We solve this problem by > creating a directory /usr/var and a symbolic link /var which points to > /usr/var: > > # mkdir /usr/var create a new directory > # cd /var move to the old /var directory > # tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) copy its contents > # cd / get out of the directory > # rm -rf /var and remove it > # ln -s /usr/var /var now link to the new directory > <snip> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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