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From: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net>
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Subject: Re: increasing mount size
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On 27 Oct 2005, at 22:32, Andrew P. wrote:

> On 10/27/05, eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> wrote:
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>> Hello
>> My /var mount has no more space left. I was wondering if there is
>> some way to increase the size of it without loosing anything?
>> Thanks
>> Eoghan
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> FreeBSD default layout is very smart.
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> What takes up so much in your /var?
>
> # du -s /var/*

That says:
du: No match.
im not sure :) but i was trying to add openoffice... i know its big.  
the size of my var is only 248MB, which
is the same size as /tmp and ive only 2% left on that.
its a 20GB hard drive - i suppose these days thats pretty small.