From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 2: 2: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spielberg.vip.uk.com (spielberg.vip.uk.com [194.176.218.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FC337B65D for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 02:01:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from modem-93-59-60-62.vip.uk.com ([62.60.59.93] helo=hal9000) by spielberg.vip.uk.com with smtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 14Od2G-0005w8-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:01:45 +0000 From: "Rob" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: /var full Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:03:13 -0000 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 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <87lmrpe7kv.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm fairly new to BSD - I recently got this in my daily report: > pid 5099 (mail.local), uid 0 on /var: file system full So I checked the amount of free space I had: Disk status: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 49583 30927 14690 68% / /dev/ad0s1f 28526055 3831863 22412108 15% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 19815 17238 992 95% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc I went in and deleted all the mail I had in my mail box and I was left with this: www# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 49583 30925 14692 68% / /dev/ad0s1f 28526055 3832007 22411964 15% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 19815 16321 1909 90% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Can I resize /var, or what solution do I need to use to get more space? Thanks -Rob -------------------------------- http://www.robhulme.com http://www.christianunion.org.uk -------------------------------- Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message