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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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