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viperhansa
Jul 29, 2020Virtuoso
ClamAv
Hi everyone, Is it possible to store the daily.cld and main.cld from clamav somewhere else? They are using up 25-35% of the os partition wich is as we all know not good it it goes full. A...
- Jul 29, 2020
viperhansa wrote:
Thanks for the reply,
On my system it looks like this:
root@HOA-NAS-PRO:~# du -h /var/lib/clamav
575M /var/lib/clamavStill about 15%, not 25%
I suggest moving everything but mirrors.dat to the data volume temporarily, and then re-running freshclam. I suspect that will reduce the space.
viperhansa wrote:
Any special reason why its on the OS partition and not together with the other apps
You'd have to ask Netgear. One consideration is that the AV can also protect the OS partition itself, so it should be available even if the data volume can't be mounted.
But you can move it yourself easily enough, just shift it to /data/.apps/clamav, and create a soft link in /var/lib.
viperhansa
Jul 29, 2020Virtuoso
Thanks for the reply,
On my system it looks like this:
root@HOA-NAS-PRO:~# du -h /var/lib/clamav
575M /var/lib/clamav
More than twice the size....
When its activated i have a usage of around 60% on OS partition.
I have some automated apps downloading and unpacking files from work and i cannot guarantee those are safe.
Other users in that environment can no or not updated antivirus.
Any special reason why its on the OS partition and not together with the other apps ?
Regards
// Hans
StephenB
Jul 29, 2020Guru - Experienced User
viperhansa wrote:
Thanks for the reply,
On my system it looks like this:
root@HOA-NAS-PRO:~# du -h /var/lib/clamav
575M /var/lib/clamav
Still about 15%, not 25%
I suggest moving everything but mirrors.dat to the data volume temporarily, and then re-running freshclam. I suspect that will reduce the space.
viperhansa wrote:
Any special reason why its on the OS partition and not together with the other apps
You'd have to ask Netgear. One consideration is that the AV can also protect the OS partition itself, so it should be available even if the data volume can't be mounted.
But you can move it yourself easily enough, just shift it to /data/.apps/clamav, and create a soft link in /var/lib.
- viperhansaJul 29, 2020Virtuoso
Great!
One question, will the updating continue to work?
- StephenBJul 29, 2020Guru - Experienced User
viperhansa wrote:
One question, will the updating continue to work?
It should. Obviously you should test it (and/or check the logs).
- viperhansaJul 30, 2020Virtuoso
hmm..
Jumped the gun too early..
It sort of worked.
The only thing that s not working is that daily.cld is recreated in the original folder and the soft link is removed.
Any ideas?
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