From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 7 5:42:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from front002.cluster1.charter.net (outbound.charter.net [24.216.159.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A806A37B404 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 05:42:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [24.217.145.132] (HELO dave) by front002.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3.2) with SMTP id 35037308; Sun, 07 Jan 2001 08:42:20 -0500 From: Dave Uhring To: "B" , Subject: Re: /var drive space problem Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 07:42:19 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" References: <001001c078ac$67228f00$0100a8c0@loqtis> In-Reply-To: <001001c078ac$67228f00$0100a8c0@loqtis> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01010707421900.00345@dave> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message