From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 27 17:31:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19653 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:31:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from boober.lineone.net (boober-be.lineone.net [194.75.152.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19541 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:30:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurab@lineone.net) Received: from speedy (host5-99-59-97.btinternet.com [195.99.59.97]) by boober.lineone.net (8.8.5/8.8.0) with SMTP id BAA30187; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:30:18 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <004001bd723c$e0ea5620$0400a8c0@speedy> Reply-To: "Chris R." From: "Chris R." To: Cc: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: /usr/var Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:30:37 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Ouch. This would be a last resort, in my humble opinion. The best >places for /tmp and /var are on a separate partion(s). If one partion >is available then pointing /tmp to /var/tmp makes sense. why is that a better option? (excuse my ignorance) > >> # mkdir /usr/var >> # cd /var >> # tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) >> # cd / >> # rm -rf /var > >Then you should do: > > # ln -s /usr/var /var >> oops, sorry my typing omition there - that is what I did, as per the book. >> & >> >> # mkdir /usr/tmp >> # rm -rf /tmp >> # ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp > and that too - but I still get the messages :-( >Just like this, in other words. > >A small question, how did /var get so full? > >Dave >-- I use the Freebsd machine as an FTP server for a small windows 95 / NT network - I just uploaded too many files I guess and it started returning the lack of space errors and refusing any more files. Chris R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message