From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 14:42: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191FE37B403 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: from WS1 (ws1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [204.50.168.15]) by hawk-systems.com (8.11.2) id f61Lfv021505 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 15:41:57 -0600 (MDT) From: dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) To: Subject: RE: Change disk size.. Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 17:46:05 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010701210054.A97322@student.uu.se> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG below >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of >Erik Trulsson >On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:39:08PM +1000, Brandon Peyton wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I need some help here. Obviously I've got a problem as I >can hardly get >> anything to work now that my / is full. >> >> I cannot afford to reformat as this is runs my >mailserver/dns/webserver/etc. >> My issue comes down to how can I create more room in my >root directory. Its >> clear I made a fatal mistake by only allowing 50M. >> > >50M should be enough. You should try to find out what is using all >that space. Then move some of it to /usr and make a symlink to it. > Can't agree with that more... ran into a similar circumstance with heavy usage server filling up a small VAR partition... had to symlink the entire log tree from var over to usr/var... system and progs don't know the difference, and streamlined var partition back to <5% find out what is causing the problem, drop to single user mode, move the problem files or directories to a new location (USR is usually obese enough) and symlink back to the original location, then run up the system again. single user mode may not be required is you aren't working with hot files like qmail directories, logs, or other easily corruptible material. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message