interesting, I wondered if it would be something like that, Thanks.

Bret

Eric Sisler wrote:
> 
> Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> 
> >Wait and see what the gurus say, but I would probably create a
> >partition, mount it, copy everything in /varspool/mail to it, delete
> >everything under var spool mail, and remount the new partition at  mount
> >point /var/spool/mail.  Ought to work.
> 
> That's pretty much it except I included stopping mail services, just to be
> on the safe side.
> 
> >Might not even have to delete the stuff under /va/spool/mail, not sure
> >what the implications would be.  Hmmm.  Some thing else to play with.
> 
> The files will still be there but will be inaccessable until
> /var/spool/mail is unmounted.  Kind of an interesting way to "hide" files
> but not what you want to do in this case because you won't free up any
> space on /var.
> 
> -Eric
> 
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