From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 16:54:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C8016A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:54:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B246343D45 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:54:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from 209-6-197-67.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.197.67] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #7) id 1C5ofG-0002b1-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:54:23 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16705.56376.229008.30065@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:54:16 -0400 To: FreeBSD-questions In-Reply-To: <200409101523.i8AFNCr07551@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200409101523.i8AFNCr07551@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta16) "celeriac" XEmacs Lucid Subject: Re: Phantom /var full messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:54:23 -0000 Jerry McAllister writes: > If you are doing database stuff, then I can't imagine having a > /var of less than a few GB, unless you move a lot of stuff out of > /var and create links. I'll suggest part of the answer is to move that space off /var - possibly to a dedicated partition or even a dedicated drive. /var is used by a lot of porgrams, and it is unfair (and probably unwise) to complicate their lives without absolute need. Robert Huff