From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 7:51:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0D537B41A for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from lsanca1-ar3-109-003.elnk.dsl.gtei.net ([4.33.109.3] helo=rne) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 161rSn-0000P7-00; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 07:51:33 -0800 From: "Ronald R. Perez" To: , "Jim Mock" Cc: "Mark Pude" , Subject: RE: /var/ is full Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:58:02 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-Reply-To: <20011108103943.U97368@happy.cow.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The same thing is happening to my machine. How do we go about in resizing the /var partition? The size of my /var partition is 20MB. thanks, ronald > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of ravi pina > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 7:40 AM > To: Jim Mock > Cc: Mark Pude; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: /var/ is full > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:29:43AM -0800, Jim Mock said at one > point in time: > > On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 at 01:21:24 -0500, Mark Pude wrote: > > > Hi-- > > > I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.4. Recently I started getting a > > > message that /var is full. I don't know why this has happened, but it > > > prevents me from running certain programs that try and create files in > > > /var/tmp. Simple programs like VI just won't save a file after I've > > > modified it. I've looked through the documentation and have found > > > nothing of use on this problem. If you could could help me, I would > > > be pleased. > > > > How big is your /var? Have you looked to see what's filling it? My > > guess is there's either a gigantic email attachment in your mailbox or > > you've got a really small /var and lots of log files. > > > > - jim > > or lots of stale things in /var/tmp > > -r > > -- > echo "send pgp key" | mail ravi@cow.org > "God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean." > -- Albert Einstein > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message