From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 27 11:36:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19330 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:36:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA19321 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:36:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mountin.man@mixcom.com) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id NAA20263; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:37:59 -0600 Received: from dial193-45.mixcom.com(207.250.193.45) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma020238; Tue Jan 27 13:37:38 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980127133217.006954b0@198.137.186.100> X-Sender: mmttnn@198.137.186.100 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:32:17 -0600 To: Damian Hamill , dennis@etinc.com From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <34CE32EA.2C67412E@cablenet.net> References: <34CDFF95.8EF5809F@club-web.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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