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From: Tim Stoddard <tims@mercury.k12.ar.us>
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Subject: /var problem
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I need to increase my inodes in my /var partition.  Can someone let me 
know if this will work.

Drop down to single user mode.
tar up /var on to /usr or something like that.
unmount /var and create a new file system with more inodes
remount /var and untar the old files to it.

Are there any files on the /var partition that have to be used even though I 
am in single user mode?

Tim Stoddard