SUMMARY REVISED: /var

Please pay attention to very important notes from Mr. David Foster.
Thanks David

-----Original Message-----
From: David Foster [mailto:foster@ncmir.ucsd.edu] 
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 1:24 PM
To: sam@bernuth.com
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: /var


If you do #2 or #3, be SURE where you put it gets mounted
early enough in the boot cycle.

Also, be aware that having this moved can cause an upgrade
to not be possible in the future (unless you put it back).

Dave Foster


Sam Mabjish wrote:
> Thank to all the replies
> 
> Solution,
> 
> 1) clean up all the log and junk file in /var
> 
> 2)  Move /var/sadm to another location to create more space in /var,
> 
> 3)  Create /var/sadm as a symbolic software link to the new location 
> where it was moved.
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> sam
> 
>  
> 
>      
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Mabjish [mailto:sam@bernuth.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:53 PM
> To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject: /var
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Folks,
> 
> /var is running out of space, and I cannot expand it's capacity due to

> hardware limitations.
> 
> I am trying to install the gcc compiler using the pkgadd command, but 
> it keeps failing because /var is getting full.
> 
> I tried pkgadd with the "-R /export/home" flag, and it keeps failing 
> as well.
> 
> Is there another way to do this without expanding /var.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> sam
> 
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