Hi,
I could think of the following:
Make sure you're alone on the computer. Move the contents of
/var/spool/mail aywhere you want.
rmdir /var/spool/mail
Create a symbolic link named /var/spool/mail pointing to the new
location of the real mail directory.
Let users back in.
Regards
Gustav
Bret Hughes 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.
>
> 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.
>
> *nixes are really cool in that a drive partition can start anywhere in
> the directory tree, not just under root.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Bret
>
> Ganbold wrote:
> >
> > How to safely move /var/spool/mail directory to somewhere else?
> > Because my /var partition is filling up.
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ganbold Ts.
> > System engineer
> >
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