Freebsd – How to increase /var directory size

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First question:

When I run df -h I can see this:

# df -h
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a    9.7G    8.0G    918M    90%    /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ad4s1d    1.8T    6.7G    1.6T     0%    /home
procfs         4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /proc
linprocfs      4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/named/dev

Why doesnt it show directories like:

/var
/etc
/usr

? On my earlier dedicated server, I was able to view every partition size available, but here I got only /home and /…

Second question:

How I can increase the /var partition size? Because after 2 hours of working, this partition is became full…

Best Answer

The df command reports disk space usage by file system. Your /var /etc and /usr are not a separate file systems they are part of the / file system. You only have 2 file systems / and /home.

If you can reinstall the system you could change the partitions to create a /var file system of a suitable size.

If you can't then you could try creating a link /var ->/home/var but the specifics of how to do this depend on the access you have tot he system.

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