Var too big

[Ambrose]

Anyone ever had a problem when remastering and making var too big? I added about 300 megs of html/php code to a Knoppix remaster, and when I go to boot it up I get an error about var being too big.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a way to 'change' the limit or something like that?

Thanks,

-a

[TyphoonMentat]

You might want to check in /var/tmp and /var/log to see if you've left any large temporary files in your remaster.

[Ambrose]

Well there are no big temp files, but /var/www/html is almost 300 megs, that's what I figure the problem is.

Why, is what I'm trying to figure out, this is causing an error

[ying-yang7]

Maybe you can do a script.
When you boot you'r remaster, run the script, putting it on /etc/rc5.d

cp -fr /anydirectory /var/www/html

Good Luck

[Ambrose]

Well, that in theory would work, but then if your /var/www/html is 1000 megs, your script would copy 1000 megs off of the CD onto the /anydirectory, which would either be a hard drive or the ramdisk.

So that's not going to work mainly because of the amount of time it would take to copy each boot, as well as most computers don't have a gig of ram.

Knoppix *should* just accept the big var, or there *should* be a place to specify the limiting size of the var.

[ying-yang7]

and, if you link the directory?
link all /var/www/html
and the "html" directory, is on another place.....

Good Luck