var partition is too small

[Redmond Militante]

hello

i have a practice box set up, i've been trying to resizing /var by symlinking it to /usr/var

in theory this is simple - my methodology is

drop to single user mode
fsck -p
mount -u /
mount -a -t ufs
swapon -a
adjkerntz -i
mkdir /usr/var
cd /var
cp -R * /usr/var
cd ../
mv /var /var-old
ln -s /usr/var
comment out the var line in fstab
reboot


-this works, except the permissions in the var directory are lost.  dmesg shows that /var/spool/clientmqueue needs to be owned by smmsp:smmsp and be chmod 770.  i get around this by going to one of my backups, unzipping the var directory, and trying the above procedure again, only this time mv'ing the /var contents i extracted from backup into /usr/var

this seems to work ok - no errors in dmesg - however, i was using the machine, and i opened up mutt - mutt complained about /var/tmp's permissions not being set right.

so - it looks like i may run the risk of losing the correct permissions on some files/directories in var if i decide to try symlinking to give my var partition more space...

is there anything i'm missing?  i'd really like this to go seamlessly...

thanks again
redmond




[Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:32:30AM -0400]
This one time, at band camp, Robert Huff said:

> 
> Redmond Militante writes:
> 
> >  which sets httpd-access.log to be rotated in binary format
> >  everytime it reaches 100 mb or once every hour for 24 hours.
> >
> >  the /var partition on this machine is 252 mb.
> 
> 	In my opinion, if you acknowledge the real possibility of
> haveing a 100mb file (never mind 100 users' mailboxes) there then
> /var is _way_ too small.   I would have 500mb, and do 1gb if I could
> afford it.
> 
> 
> 					Robert Huff
> 
> 
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