From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 21: 5:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DAE37BA6F for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 21:05:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e4F45SD16322; Sun, 14 May 2000 22:05:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005150405.e4F45SD16322@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Shameek Basu" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of inodes! In-Reply-To: <20000514061101.46927.qmail@hotmail.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:05:28 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 May 2000 23:11:01 PDT "Shameek Basu" wrote: +------------------ | >On Sat, 13 May 2000 21:18:08 PDT "Shameek Basu" wrote: | > +------------------ | > | Hi, | > | | > | I did a df and this was the output: | > +------------------ | > | >run df -i, you may find something interesting. | > | | Are there some directories in /var that I can delete w/o harming the system? | | Shameek | | >chris | > +------------------ The /var/db/pkgs directory gets pretty big. Much of what is there are just small files rather than symbolic links. I moved it from the /var mount point and put it elsewhere. One way to acomplish this is to do the following: mkdir /usr/var.db.pkg cd /var/db/pkg pax -rwvpe * /usr/var.db.pkg cd .. mv pkg pkg- ln -s /usr/var.db.pkg /var/db/pkg rm -r pkg- chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message