Maybe you could just gzip it to buy yourself some space, and see if Mail will regenerate the base file from scratch (which I think it will).
That way if it DOESN'T regen the file, you at least haven't lost anything... Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:51 AM, French, Derek < derek.fre...@learningservicesus.com> wrote: > Using Unix AIX 5.1 box, and unfortunately let mail file get too large > (304megs), and now I can’t get into the Mail program to delete the emails at > the root directory because it says, “/tmp : No space left on device.” I > don’t see any other large files/am uncomfortable deleting any other files in > the /var/tmp folder, so…can I delete the large mail file that is at the path > /var/spool/mail/root and still be ok, i.e. it will regenerate the > file when I try and get back into the mail program? Or will it permanently > delete the Mail program? Thanks for your help. P.S. I have very little Unix > knowledge. > > Derek > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > >
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