From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 24 23:41:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15371 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 23:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heather.greatbasin.com (heather.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15366 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 23:41:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (rno-max1-12.gbis.net [207.228.60.76]) by heather.greatbasin.com (8.9.0/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA21453; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 23:40:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <010401be2fd9$e3cca180$4c3ce4cf@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "freebsd-questions" , "Greg Lehey" Subject: Re: Moving /var to /usr/var Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 23:29:41 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's what I was looking for. Thank you kind sir, and Merry Christmas. --Dan -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey To: Dan O'Connor ; 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message