Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:32:17 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <mountin.man@mixcom.com> To: Damian Hamill <damian@cablenet.net>, dennis@etinc.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980127133217.006954b0@198.137.186.100> In-Reply-To: <34CE32EA.2C67412E@cablenet.net> References: <34CDFF95.8EF5809F@club-web.com>
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At 07:18 PM 1/27/98 +0000, Damian Hamill wrote: >Mark Segal wrote: >> >> dennis wrote: >> > >> > What does it mean (and what can you do) when Sendmail complains >> > about being "low on space"? Theres plenty of room on the disk..... >> > >> It's probably low on space on /var not /usr.. just do a "df" and you >> will proably see the disk usage on /var is really high like 90%+ this is >> probably do to some user with 14 megs of email.. :) > >Yes consider moving your mail queue (/var/spool/mqueue) to your /usr >partition and symlinking to it. Unless disk IO and space is an issue, where a nth disk is mounted a /var, I symlink the entire /var to /usr/var when installing. No sense deciding how much to reserve for /var and /usr and more economical for single disk installs. Some special files won't copy, but are restored upon reboot. Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking mountin.man@mixcom.com
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