From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 19:11:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF0DF16A4D8 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:11:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C847043D60 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:10:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so1630812nfc for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:10:31 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=K8x4EL/VyOmRXNiR8wJWaHuFuu7vkO8JiqoWFkYnvK99s6+O36vk5yIEQClm+ccry2GI195Qr8H15iseFIthcIthLhyvkcKnocZxYXVVJ45GGRDEmQlXEcqj31TgCrJN9t1VdJxHcR9hmZckAl+xsuJdYRQtB9xEWwSU0ZQ8mZU= Received: by 10.82.190.2 with SMTP id n2mr410878buf.1166382630828; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:10:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.175.1 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:10:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:10:30 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Bradley Giesbrecht" In-Reply-To: <00190780-C6FE-42DB-9AD8-5D985625545F@pixilla.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <00190780-C6FE-42DB-9AD8-5D985625545F@pixilla.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: var out of space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:11:06 -0000 On 17/12/06, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > Hello, > > > I inherited a freebsd installation with a var slice/mount that is to > small and filling up all the time. > > What type of info should I provide to allow someone to help me with a > solution? > > I would very much prefer to not install another drive just for /var. > > /usr has plenty of space. Can I mount var off of /usr? > You could do that. > /dev/ad0s1e 257998 206956 30404 87% /var More to the point, you might want to find out what is filling your /var as that is quite a lot of space being used if you are not running a mailserver. du -d1 -h /var (as root) should give you some clues. The usual suspects are /var/tmp and /var/log, though on occasion I have had logfile rotation not do its thing correctly and leave a program writing to a nonexistant file, filling up /var. -- --