Re: Re: [cobalt-developers] Disk Full

[David Keyes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

/var at 86% ? - maybe you have lots of messages.

Dave.

> 
> From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2002/05/14 Tue AM 07:20:34 MST
> To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Disk Full
> 
> Cedric Micheloud wrote:
> 
> > How can I do some disk space in my RAQ4r because I have this problem:
> > 
> > /var used at 86%
> > / used at 77%
> > /home used at 7%
> 
> You move (mv) some directories into home, and create symbolic links. 
> You usually have to restart any services writing to those directories
> after you've done it.
> 
> Here's an example based on one RaQ4 i'm looking at right now for you:
> 
> Our /var directory is only at 10%; have you installed any programs into
> /var?  You probably should have installed them into /home in the first
> place.
> 
> We've got two symbolic links in /var; they may have both been put there
> by the RaQ upon installation.  They are:
> 
> rap -> /nsr/rap  (this doesn't save space; I'd bet it's for preservation
> of a legacy directory structure)
> 
> tmp -> /home/tmp (this definitely saves space; I cannot recall if we did
> this or if it came by default on the RaQ)
> 
> Here are some of the directories for which we've got symbolic links from
> / (root); some of these may have been originally on the RaQ; you can do
> the others yourself.
> 
> opt -> /home/opt
> tmp -> /home/tmp
> 
> In /usr we've got the following links:
> 
> X11R6 -> /home/X11R6/
> doc -> /home/doc
> man -> /home/man
> tmp -> /home/tmp
> 
> These save a significant amount of space.
> 
> We do these moves all the time, for many clients, and we find that done
> properly they don't break anything.
> 
> Jeff
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