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From: "Taro Ikai" <ikait@rcn.com>
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Subject: /var short of disk space because of /var/pkg/db
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My /var partition got full.

I had the FreeBSD installer automatically allocate partitions, and
as a result, my /var partition is less than 20MB in size.

Recently I started using portupgrade, and the program fattened
the files under /var/pkg/db.

Question:

1) Can I temporarily delete /var/pkg/db/*? Can I then safely 
remake the content of this directory using portsdb?

2) Can I make the system use space under /usr instead of 
/var/pkg/db?

Taro


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