From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 00:06:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA06032 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:06:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA06007 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA14340; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:36:19 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA11014; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:36:18 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981017163618.C485@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:36:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Loren Koss , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Run out of space on /var (was: Run out of space on /VAR) References: <000901bdf996$8a76e420$1e6200ce@vatos.pciway.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <000901bdf996$8a76e420$1e6200ce@vatos.pciway.com>; from Loren Koss on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 11:22:39PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Friday, 16 October 1998 at 23:22:39 -0700, Loren Koss wrote, in a single line: > I have plenty of space on /usr (about 700 megs) and I want to give > about 50 megs to /var, is it possible without losing anything? No. You'll have to repartition or put some directories on a different file system. This is one of my main objections to too many file systems. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message