From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 17:32:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scrabble.freeuk.net (scrabble.freeuk.net [212.126.144.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E0014DCA for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 17:32:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from [212.126.149.130] (helo=cream.org) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 10nAZK-0000Sf-00; Fri, 28 May 1999 00:32:14 +0000 Message-ID: <374DE374.FEA88756@cream.org> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 01:29:40 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chris R." Cc: 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: > 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 / I agree. But my 3.1-RELEASE system installed a seprate /var partition by default. And so did my 2.2.7-RELEASE. > There are (I thought?) warnings about the dangers of this on heavy mail > using setups etc. I can't comment on this 'cos I don't know. But it perhaps won't be a problem if the system in question isn't dealing with a lot of mail. And the likelyhood is that this system isn't. -- Andrew Boothman http://sour.cream.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message