[ale] How to change the size of Var folder?

[Joseph A. Knapka]

You really need to find out why /var is getting full and
address that problem. Maybe you have some daemon that's
dumping thousands of "Can't framborize /dev/widget on retry #550392"
into /var/log/messages, or something like that.

You could, however -- strictly as a temporary hack -- copy
/var to a directory on a larger partition (say, /usr/new_var),
remove the /var directory (dangerous - probably best to be
in single-user mode for that), and then link /var to
/usr/new_var. The danger, of course, is that whatever is
filling up your /var partition now has the opportunity to
fill up /usr instead.

Regards,

-- Joe

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> Well, more than likely you just can't increase the size of your /var
> partition w/o changing the size of another one.  Send me the output of
> "df -k" and "fdisk -l /dev/hda" so that I can get a better idea of how
> your harddrive is laid out.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> --- Nguyen Son <ducson at wingfu.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jim,
> > Thanks for the response.
> > I am new to Linux so what i really want is to increase the size of
> > Var
> > folder without having read all articles about howto's create a
> > patition and
> > mount and remount var .
> >
> > Is there any simpler way just to temporary fix this problem ?

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