From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 9:34: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9219A37B41A for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:33:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A9997901A00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:32:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:32:30 -0500 From: mpd To: Martyn Hill Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Is there anything wrong with softlinking /var to a pratition with more space Message-ID: <20020322123230.A19932@rochester.rr.com> References: <002101c1d1c5$5cb4cd80$0a00000a@stjames.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <002101c1d1c5$5cb4cd80$0a00000a@stjames.net>; from m.hill@st-james-snrgirls.w-london.sch.uk on Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:16:52PM +0000 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 On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:16:52PM +0000, Martyn Hill wrote: > 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... FWIW, I've had /var symlinked to /usr/var for almost 4 years with no problems. You get a warning when doing an installworld (I think,) but you can ignore it. > > Martyn Hill mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "TRULY, A CURIOUS COMPLICATION!!!" - Mr. Nutty from "ONE TINY AD (THE WAITING GAME)" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message