var out of space

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Tue Dec 19 18:48:44 PST 2006


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Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> Thanks for all help.
> 
> uname says "FreeBSD 4.10-SECURITY"
> 
> Looks like I should do a fresh install. What's a bugger is this server
> does dns (bind 8) and web hosting (Apache 1.3) for a few hundred domains.
> 
> I can backup the zone and web data no problem but I've only installed
> FreeBSD a few times while looking for a replacement for Gentoo.
> 
> I need to get this right.
> 
> This server will only be doing dns and some minor (low hit) web hosting.
> 
> I will do my own homework and google like hell before I do this but I'd
> like to ask here on this list what version of FreeBSD I should go with
> if there is a good howto for a combo bind/apache/php/mysql build.
> 
> Thanks for sharing your valuable time.
> 
> //Brad
> 
> On Dec 16, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I inherited a freebsd installation with a var slice/mount that is to
>> small and filling up all the time.
>>
>> What type of info should I provide to allow someone to help me with a
>> solution?
>>
>> I would very much prefer to not install another drive just for /var.
>>
>> /usr has plenty of space. Can I mount var off of /usr?
>>
>> Here is the output of df for starters:
>>
>> /dev/ad0s1a    128990  119970    -1298   101%    /
>> /dev/ad0s1f    257998  185246    52114    78%    /tmp
>> /dev/ad0s1g 112755734 4533434 99201842     4%    /usr
>> /dev/ad0s1e    257998  206956    30404    87%    /var
>> procfs              4       4        0   100%    /proc
>>
>>
>> and ls -la at / looks like this:
>>
>> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel      802 May 25  2004 .cshrc
>> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel      251 May 25  2004 .profile
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     6355 May 25  2004 COPYRIGHT
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1024 Nov 29 17:39 bin
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel      512 Nov  5 15:27 boot
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Jan 16  2005 cdrom
>> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       10 Jan 16  2005 compat -> usr/compat
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel    20480 Jan 16  2005 dev
>> drwxr-xr-x  16 root  wheel     2560 Dec  1 16:11 etc
>> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel        9 Jan 16  2005 home -> /usr/home
>> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  4344469 Nov  5 13:22 kernel
>> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  4344469 Nov  5 13:22 kernel.GENERIC
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 May 25  2004 mnt
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     4608 Nov  5 13:22 modules
>> dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel      512 Dec 17 01:10 proc
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel      512 Nov  5 13:36 root
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     2048 Nov  5 15:27 sbin
>> drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel     1024 Jan 16  2005 stand
>> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       11 Nov  5 15:27 sys -> usr/src/sys
>> drw-------   7 root  wheel     2048 Dec 17 01:09 tmp
>> drwxr-xr-x  18 root  wheel      512 Jan 16  2005 usr
>> drwxr-xr-x  21 root  wheel      512 Nov  6 11:54 var
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Brad

Brad,
	Just get the latest stable (6.x); it's a good, solid release. New
version of 6.x is coming out soon though (6.2) FYI.
- -Garrett
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