Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:29:18 -0700 From: Steve Doty <sdoty@jaxx.net> To: "Chris R." <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk> Cc: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: / getting a bit full.....help.. Message-ID: <374DE35E.F4EDC616@jaxx.net> References: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.9905271714360.164-100000@pdx.cybcon.com> <374DE0B0.C9FD6277@cream.org> <374E4500.CECBEEB4@ukonline.co.uk>
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"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
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