On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:45:38PM -0400, Julian Leyh wrote:
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> On 21:01 Mon 26 Mar     , Darrin Chandler wrote:
> > Reinstall may be the easiest and cleanest. There's also another
> > alternative that you left out, which I have done before. If you have
> > unused space at the end, you can add a slice and newfs for a new /var,
> > then reboot single user and copy everything over, edit fstab, etc. Not
> > *too* tricky at all, if the space is there to begin with.
> 
> You could also identify which directories use the most space and move
> them to a different location, and add a symlink instead.
> 
> That souldn't be done for any directory in /var, but for example
> /var/www can easily be put somewhere else.. If you don't run a webserver
> you could even delete it safely.

Good point. I've actually done this on purpose. I built a server for
web+database and didn't know how much space I'd need until I was into
the design. So I made a small /var and left unused space. Later I knew
better how much I'd need for /var/www vs. /var/postgresql, and it's a
simple matter to slice up the unused space, newfs, copy, and edit fstab.

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