From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 19 12:45:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-87.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336D237B436 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:45:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f6JJiwf02082; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:44:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:43:19 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mat=EEss_Elsbergs?= Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem change after installation Message-ID: <20010719154319.C1852@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <000c01c110d9$a348f620$9653949f@lv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000c01c110d9$a348f620$9653949f@lv>; from matiss@bkc.lv on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:05:46PM -0700 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:05:46PM -0700, Matīss Elsbergs thus sprach: > Now I have the following problem. > I recently installed FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE on a production server, > but, as I was in a hurry, I used defaults for disk dividing to > various mount points. So, the /var is 20 MBytes, which, as far as > I'm concerned, is not too many for a mail server :-) When I have a large volume of mail - as in one system I installed for a site to replace and aging and tired sun system, the /var was not large enough for that amount of users. I don't think you should put a great many things like that in /var any was. I just moved /var/mail aside and made a link so that /var/mail was a symlink to /usr/mail. > Is there any way to change it? Again, I am asking this question > after sitting at manual and man pages but I guess I simply don't > know, where to look. I'd not do that. A small /var is good. Make a symlink and don't worry. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message