Re: Resizing /var (maybe off topic)

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i'm using different unices for 7 years and excluding few cases i never made other partitioning scheme than 2 partitions: swap and / i have no problems like "there's out of space in partition x while plenty of y". it's far easier to do backups too (single dump). If

Re: Resizing /var

2005-06-12 Thread Vizion
On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:37, the author Jerry McAllister contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Resizing /var: >> Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> > On 2005-06-11 15:43, ptitoliv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>I have a big problem on a FreeBSD 5.3 Box. It is an h

Checking huge filesystems [was: Re: Resizing /var (maybe off topic)]

2005-06-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-12 14:41, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'm using different unices for 7 years and excluding few cases i never > made other partitioning scheme than 2 partitions: swap and / > > i have no problems like "there's out of space in partition x while > plenty of y". it's far

Re: Resizing /var

2005-06-12 Thread ptitoliv
ptitoliv a écrit : >Hello again > >Thank you all for your answers.Like you said, I use the symlinks technic >to transfer /var files into /usr and it works perfectly. I have >transfered all logs and databases. Only postfix files stay in /var >becaise I have some problems with special files like soc

Re: Resizing /var (maybe off topic)

2005-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
g one partition or many smaller. and it doesn't matter at all as FreeBSD (and NetBSD) doesn't crash every few hours like windows On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:12:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ptitoliv

Re: Resizing /var

2005-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But there are some constraints : - I have no free unpartitioned space available - I can't format any partition because and I can't loose datas Is there any solution with some BSD tools in order to solve this problem ? link /var/spool to /usr/spool :) Thank you for your answers Best Regards

Re: Resizing /var

2005-06-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2005-06-11 15:43, ptitoliv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I have a big problem on a FreeBSD 5.3 Box. It is an hosted server > >>installed by an hosting service. But I didn't know what they smoke when > >>they have installed the system but they sized the

Re: Resizing /var

2005-06-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-11 09:27, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-06-11 15:43, ptitoliv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> But there are some constraints : >>> >>>- I have no free unpartitioned space available >>>- I can't format any partition because and I can't loose dat

Re: Resizing /var

2005-06-11 Thread Doug Poland
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-06-11 15:43, ptitoliv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a big problem on a FreeBSD 5.3 Box. It is an hosted server installed by an hosting service. But I didn't know what they smoke when they have installed the system but they sized the /var filesystem only to

Re: Resizing /var

2005-06-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ptitoliv wrote: Hello everybody, I have a big problem on a FreeBSD 5.3 Box. It is an hosted server installed by an hosting service. But I didn't know what they smoke when they have installed the system but they sized the /var filesystem only to 200 MB which is not sufficient for my needs. I us

Re: Resizing /var

2005-06-11 Thread David Banning
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 03:43:07PM +0200, ptitoliv wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a big problem on a FreeBSD 5.3 Box. It is an hosted server > installed by an hosting service. But I didn't know what they smoke when > they have installed the system but they sized the /var filesystem only > to

Re: Resizing /var

2005-06-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-11 15:43, ptitoliv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a big problem on a FreeBSD 5.3 Box. It is an hosted server > installed by an hosting service. But I didn't know what they smoke when > they have installed the system but they sized the /var filesystem only > to 2

Resizing /var

2005-06-11 Thread ptitoliv
Hello everybody, I have a big problem on a FreeBSD 5.3 Box. It is an hosted server installed by an hosting service. But I didn't know what they smoke when they have installed the system but they sized the /var filesystem only to 200 MB which is not sufficient for my needs. I used an emergency sol