On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Tom W wrote: > I am working with a RH box that someone else had setup and they did not > allocate enough room on the /var partition and its getting close to getting > full occasionally. I was wondering if their are any problems with just > symlinking /var/spool/mail to /usr/spool/mail and putting all the mail files > there, since the /usr partition has plenty of room? >
I'll say "no" its not OK all the time. The /var filesystem is there for "variable" data. /usr is there for "static" files. Many people feel that /usr should be mounted read-only (and on many large systems /usr is on a remote system that is read-only) since things on that partition shouldn't change often. That's the theory. If I had to get through the night on a system that's running out of space, I'd sym-link into /usr space as a temporary fix also, but I'd also look for a new or additional hdd since they seem to be cheap right now. Mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
