From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 17:29:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from segnette.jaxx.net (na-209-50-181-160.lasvegas.corecomm.net [209.50.181.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E46414F02 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 17:29:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sdoty@jaxx.net) Received: from jaxx.net (dhcp198.50.lvcm.com [24.234.50.198]) by segnette.jaxx.net (8.9.2/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA56787; Thu, 27 May 1999 17:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <374DE35E.F4EDC616@jaxx.net> Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:29:18 -0700 From: Steve Doty X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chris R." Cc: Andrew Boothman , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: / getting a bit full.....help.. References: <374DE0B0.C9FD6277@cream.org> <374E4500.CECBEEB4@ukonline.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Chris R." wrote: > > Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > > Bill Woods wrote: > > > > > > I have already moved /var/log > > > > > > any more ideas...... > > > > Erm. I don't know if I'm being stupid here but, /var/log isn't on the / > > partition, it's on the /var partition so how is moving it going to help? > > > > Doesn't that depend really on whether a seperate /var partition was made > when the OS was installed? If it wasn't I thought it defaulted to the > root partition / > > There are (I thought?) warnings about the dangers of this on heavy mail > using setups etc. > > CR > I don't think the setup has a warning about the auto partition option. There should be though. I have had to redo other peoples machines because they use that option and it only gives you about 25megs on /var which is not enough with logs and mail files. Is there really a benefit to have different partitions on one disk anyway. I always set the whole drive to / minus a swap partition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message