On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:55:01 -0700 (PDT)
Jayanarayanan M N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> If you had opted for all automatic installation
> there is a good chance this /var file system actually
> a directory  on root (/) or /home file  systems.

I did a recommended installation (with some minor interferences from me) of Mandrake 
8.2. Then I removed lots of games and stuff like freeciv.

This is what my df info says:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             2.2G  1.1G  1.0G  50% /
none                     0     0     0   -  /proc
none                     0     0     0   -  /dev
none                     0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
none                   30M     0   29M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda7             1.4G   78M  1.3G   6% /home
/dev/hda1             2.0G  1.3G  764M  63% /mnt/windows
/dev/hda8             105M   46M   54M  46% /var

So there's a seperate partition for /var. Increasing the size of the /var partition is 
unsafe?

Thanks.
Diwakar

<snip>

> This clearly shows no file system /var. Here /var is
> just a directory under /
> 
> Solution could be create a new partition, move data 
> from /var to this. Provide a soft link called /var to
> this new file system. I never tried it. So not very
> sure of result. This _is_ a risky step.
> 
> -jayan


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