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Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:40:56 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
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Subject: Re: Resizing /var
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On 2005-06-11 09:27, Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On 2005-06-11 15:43, ptitoliv <ptitoliv@frenchsuballiance.cjb.net> wrote:
>>> But there are some constraints :
>>>
>>>- I have no free unpartitioned space available
>>>- I can't format any partition because and I can't loose datas
>>>
>>> Is there any solution with some BSD tools in order to solve this problem ?
>>
>> None that I know of.  Your best bet is, I guess, to find somewhere
>> enough space for a backup, repartition & restore session.
>
> Doesn't it make sense to simply move selectetd directories to a
> partition with free space and create symlinks?  I would think moving
> /var/db and /var/log would suffice for most situations.

True.  It does.

To be frank, I didn't even think of this (mostly because I usually keep
/var big enough for the work I do and never found myself in need of
shuffling things around a lot).