From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 16:57:41 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 BEF8E16A4CF for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:57:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.utdallas.edu (smtp1.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F8D43D64 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:57:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from utd49554 (utd49554.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.85]) by smtp1.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0097B389151; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:57:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:57:57 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: Jerry McAllister Message-ID: <6EF10372BDC3E432AA51B3AF@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <200409101523.i8AFNCr07551@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200409101523.i8AFNCr07551@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline cc: shahid@zonewave.net cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Phantom /var full messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:57:41 -0000 --On Friday, September 10, 2004 11:23:11 AM -0400 Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> How in the world would that help? (BTW, /var is 31GB) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Did you miss this? > > > 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. See some recent previous posts on the subject. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu