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

[Nguyen Son]

Thanks Joseph for your helps

Really like your small procedure

Best Regards

Son
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph A. Knapka" <jknapka at earthlink.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Nguyen Son" <ducson at wingfu.com>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] How to change the size of Var folder?


> Nguyen Son wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > There are couple of big log files and i have emptied them all.
> > Can you show me how to link /var to /new_var.
> > I don't worry too much about fill up /usr as its size about 1249000 k
> > available
> > and /var has only 220000 k available
>
> Unless the machine in question is a server, 200MB for /var should
> be more than enough. If it is filling up often, something
> is wrong (most likely there is some misconfigured software running
> on your system). And if /var is filling up every day, then
> /usr will fill up in five or six days given the partition sizes
> you mentioned above.
>
> Anyway, here's the procedure I use to do this kind of thing:
>
> % cp -a /var /usr/new_var
> # Reboot your machine in single-user mode. This is somewhat
> # distribution-dependent, I think.
> % umount /var   # May fail, don't worry about it.
> % rmdir /var
> % ln -s /usr/new_var /var
>
> Again, let me emphasize that I don't recommend that you do this!
>
> > It would be nice if I can control which thing should be logged, as most
of
> > the thing in log files as mailer-daemon mail which i don't think that it
> > needs to log
>
> I'm sure that kind of thing is controllable, but I have not configured
> any mail daemon in a long time, so I can't tell you how to do it.
>
> Good luck,
>
> -- Joe
>
> > TIA
> >
> > Son
> >
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