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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...
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 wrote:
One question, will the updating continue to work?
It should. Obviously you should test it (and/or check the logs).
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?
viperhansa wrote:The only thing that s not working is that daily.cld is recreated in the original folder and the soft link is removed.
I tried moving it on my own system, and the update worked correctly. As you can see the soft link is still present. The virus definitions were updated by the NAS software, and placed in the relocated folder. (I'm not experiencing the update failures that others are having).
root@RN202:~# cd /var/lib root@RN202:/var/lib# ls -al clamav lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jul 30 05:53 clamav -> /data/.apps/clamav
root@RN202:/var/lib# cd /data/.apps/clamav root@RN202:/data/.apps/clamav# ls -al total 403844 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 102 Jul 30 07:28 . drwxrwxr-x 1 root root 242 Jul 30 05:51 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48 Jul 30 07:28 antivir.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 296388 Jul 26 08:47 bytecode.cvd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295365632 Jul 30 07:26 daily.cld -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117859675 Jul 26 08:45 main.cvd -rw------- 1 root root 156 Jul 30 07:28 mirrors.dat root@RN202:/data/.apps/clamav#Ok, looks like mine is different.
1 question more, have you a softlink for the clamav folder or each file?
i did a softlink per file.
if so, how do you create a softlink for a folder?
regards
// Hans
viperhansa wrote:
i did a softlink per file.
That won't work. freshclam isn't updating the file, it's downloading a new file and deleting the old. In your case, that deletes the softlink.
viperhansa wrote:
i did a softlink per file.
if so, how do you create a softlink for a folder?
As you can see from the above, I made a softlink for the folder. It's no different from creating a softlink for a file.
# cd /var/lib # ln -s /data/.apps/clamav clamav
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