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 used an emergency solution which was to transfer some datas on /usr
like databases but I am afraid that the problem will come back. So I am
asking here if there is any solution to transfer free space from ./usr
to /var.
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 ?
Thank you for your answers
Best Regards,
Ptitoliv
Not a "solution", per se, but I've been able to run servers
a long time with symlinks from /var/foo to /usr/var/foo,
and so on. /var/log is a particularly good candate IMO,
but I see no reason that you couldn't try it with most
any subfolder(s).
The problem there is that it'd be best to do the symlinking
when the box was in single-user, and I doubt you have console
access in the situation you describe. In should be possible,
depending on the box's application, to kill the daemon(s) using
said folder, mv the data to /usr, create the symlink and restart
the daemon(s), but it's maybe a little touchy, as I said, depending
on what you're moving and how many customers it would affect,
etc.
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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