From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 8 03:21:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA07252 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 03:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sys3.cambridge.uk.psi.net (sys3.cambridge.uk.psi.net [154.32.106.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA07245 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 03:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sys4.cambridge.uk.psi.net (sys4.cambridge.uk.psi.net [154.32.106.14]) by sys3.cambridge.uk.psi.net (8.8.4/) with ESMTP id LAA20603; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:21:04 +0100 (BST) Received: by sys4.cambridge.uk.psi.net (8.8.5/SMI-5.5-UKPSINet) id KAA14936; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 10:17:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from infodev.nadt.org.uk (infodev.nadt.org.uk [172.16.99.205]) by charlie.nadt.org.uk (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA04875; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:47:26 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970808094725.00714f6c@wrcmail> X-Sender: robmel@wrcmail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 09:47:25 +0100 To: Paul Sondhu , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Robin Melville Subject: Re: Problem with root filesystem becoming full In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 20:22 06/08/97 +1000, Paul Sondhu wrote: >... >there wasnt enough temporary space to create >.pop.username files or something along those lines. > >Aug 6 14:22:24 riker /kernel: uid 0 on /: file system full > >Is it possible to move the /var/mail directory onto a different partition >and then create a symbolic link to this new directory without incurring >any problems? This would greatly improve our disk space problem. We have >plenty of room left on another partition: > >Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/sd0a 237918 185012 33872 85% / >/dev/sd0s1e 1985502 1664954 161706 91% /usr >/dev/sd0s1f 5655650 3506028 1697170 67% /www >procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc You'd normally create a separate /var filesystem for this sort of stuff. I'd recommend symlinking the whole of /var to somewhere else. You don't want too much writing on the root filesystem because if there are problems it's more likely to get corrupted -- then you /are/ in trouble. You might also consider replacing your qpopper daemon with the imapd one. It won't save any space, but it seems to work better :) Regards, Robin. -------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction & Forensic Information Service Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team (Extn. 49178) Vox: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 Email: robmel@nadt.org.uk WWW: http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt/ ---------------------------------------------------------