@bernard, my first option to solve this problem was to clean all the unnecessary data from the server including all the logs, the problem is that even after clean up the /var still remains full, i have actually done du -hs on almost all the folders in /var, their total space doesnt add up the total allocated to /var from the df -h results.<br>
@wash i am about to test on creating a symbolic links as you indicated, only that i don&#39;t know whether the mysql.sock will work with this setting. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Odhiambo Washington <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com" target="_blank">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Felix mwai <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:flxxmw@gmail.com" target="_blank">flxxmw@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Thanks Benard, Do you think some services might stop working if i completely migrate the entire var to the external hard disk?</blockquote></div><div><br>Drop to single user mode<br>Mount the new filesystem on whatever mountpoint you wish (let&#39;s call it /bigstore)<br>


mkdir /bigstore/var<br>cd /<br>dump -L0af - /var | (cd /bigstore/var; restore -rf -)<br>umount /var <br>vi /etc/fstab and comment it out<br>ln -s /bigstore/var /var<br>reboot into multiuser mode<br><br>I hope Linux supports growfs so you could reclaim the partition you just umounted into /<br>


<br><br></div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Bernard Mwagiru <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmwagiru@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmwagiru@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I believe you can mount extra storage and soft link /var to it.<br>Or you can NFS share a network storage to /var.<br>


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<br>./bernard<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Felix mwai <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:flxxmw@gmail.com" target="_blank">flxxmw@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi Guys,<br>One of my web server runs ubuntu server 10.10. I installed it on a 200GB harddisk and assigned /var 70GB but now seems to be full, anyone know whether i can mount a 1TB external harddisk on var and manage to extend the space to 1070GB, i have tried using LVM in vain.<br clear="all">





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