Need to move /var

jrodger · 02-14-2010, 09:36 PM

I have a little issue, every month the log folder fills up and stops my mail coming through. The poeple that build the server put it into a ridiculously small partition and have 2 home partitions. This is a proxy server, no-one logs onto it and I want to use one of the home folders to relocate the /var folder to.

Any ideas? pointers most welcome.

JR

chrism01 · 02-14-2010, 10:45 PM

You should look into the logrotate service to automatically prune your logfiles. Moving partitions will not solve your problem, the disk will still fill up eventually.

jrodger · 02-15-2010, 12:17 AM

I am aware of the logrotate thing but it is not working, therefore the move is a band-aid solution at this stage, but also a logical one, when the files are moved, I can then work on getting logrotate to work correclty.

slightlystoopid · 02-15-2010, 05:39 AM

are logs really the only thing significantly filling up /var? You could relocate /var to a larger partition. You could also create a /var/log symlink relocating the logs somewhere else. or you could get logrotate working. make sure that /etc/logrotate.conf contains something like:

Code:

size=somethingsmall
postrotate
find /var/log -iname '*.log.*' -mtime +somethingshort -exec rm {} \;
endscript

Tinkster · 02-15-2010, 11:52 AM

Split out from the other thread - please don't hi-jack other
peoples threads.

mpier · 02-15-2010, 01:39 PM

Hi,
is really necessary to relocate /var. If omitted, may even prevent the system from booting up. The simplest way is to copy whole /var content, cp -a /var/* /mnt/new_var and mount /dev/new_var_partition /var. /mnt/new_war was the previous /dev/new_var_partiotion mount point.

Sorry form my english.