From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 5 16: 1:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887E2468E for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:01:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p77.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.77]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA05451; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 19:01:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <389CB9FB.B128D712@ds.net> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 19:02:03 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk is full message, how could this happen? References: <00020423330503.02757@chip.homenet> <20000206101109.B16173@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > As others have pointed out, you probably have /var on your root file > system. You obviously didn't follow the book to the letter. I > recommend a 32 MB root file system, which probably needs upgrading to > 40 MB, but never to 100 MB. I do, however, recommend not to have a > separate /var file system, and on page 87 I explain what you need to > do. It's probably best to reboot after doing these steps. I'm > appending a plain text version. > I saw your explanation for moving /var to /usr/var, but what I didn't see was your reasoning for doing this. I've always created a separate /var partition - size depends on the application. Am I missing some subtle reason for _not_ doing this? Thanks, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message