Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:33:08 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Taro Ikai" <ikait@rcn.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /var short of disk space because of /var/pkg/db Message-ID: <20020208043308.ECEBF408A@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <053201c1afed$9e47a550$c801a8c0@p1400> References: <053201c1afed$9e47a550$c801a8c0@p1400>
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On Thursday 07 February 2002 10:39 am, Taro Ikai wrote:
> 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?
Sure. Just
mkdir /usr/pkg
mv /var/pkg /usr
ln -s /usr/pkg /var
voila! Your package info lives under /usr (or anyplace else you want it).
Or you can put just the database itself under /usr; I find it more
elegant/understandable to move entire directories in cases like this, but
that's up to you.
>
> Taro
>
>
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