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Date:      Sun, 7 Jan 2001 07:42:19 -0600
From:      Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net>
To:        "B" <brentb@loa.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /var drive space problem
Message-ID:  <01010707421900.00345@dave>
In-Reply-To: <001001c078ac$67228f00$0100a8c0@loqtis>
References:  <001001c078ac$67228f00$0100a8c0@loqtis>

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On Sunday 07 January 2001 07:19, B wrote:

> > Hello,
> This probably isnt the place to be posting this question  BUT...ive
> always gottin good advise from this mailing list so here goes
> nothing............ i have a recently upgraded FreeBSD 4.2 from
> 4.1...and my problem is that im runing out of space on the /var
> partition (i recieve alot of system mail  in that partition which i
> have to delete daily to keep it at 99%) ...im not sure what i can
> delete to make room...although if i go to /var/tmp       theres a dir
> thats called "temproot" ..i think it was from when i CVS the new 4.2
> src..and installed....can i delete this dir???  this is the dir
> structure under /var
>
> account/        crash/          games/          msgs/           rwho/
>           yp/ at/             cron/           log/           
> preserve/       spool/ backups/        db/             mail/         
>  run/            tmp/
>
> if anyone has any suggestions.... they would be greatly
> appreciated.....
>
> thanx in advance
> Brent

# mv /var/mail /usr/mail
# ln -s /usr/mail /var/mail



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