From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 9:17:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.mailbox.net.uk (smtp.mailbox.co.uk [195.82.125.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD9437B41D for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:17:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.18.235.141] (helo=sjmobile) by smtp.mailbox.net.uk with smtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 16oSfA-000563-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:17:12 +0000 Message-ID: <002101c1d1c5$5cb4cd80$0a00000a@stjames.net> From: "Martyn Hill" To: "FreeBSD-questions" Subject: Is there anything wrong with softlinking /var to a pratition with more space Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:16:52 -0000 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 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 Dear all Our school FreeBSD box regularly fills its /var partition (my mistake - I only gave it 20MB at install...) As a short-term solution, I have created a softlink to a var/log directory made on another partition and removed the original /var/log directory (as log was the offending directory). Can I expect problems as a result of my somewhat dirty solution? Seems OK for now... Martyn Hill ICT Teacher and IT Co-ordinator St James Independent School London To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message