Thanks a lot. I will try it.
Ganbold
At 08:06 PM 1/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How to safely move /var/spool/mail directory to somewhere else?
Because my /var partition is filling up.
If you have another disk or empty space you can create a new filesystem on,
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
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
On 21-Jan-00 Ganbold opined:
How to safely move /var/spool/mail directory to somewhere else?
Because my /var partition is filling up.
The easiest, not necessarily best, way:
mv /var/spool/mail /destination
ln -s /destination/mail /var/spool
All as root. No config changes or
Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How to safely move /var/spool/mail directory to somewhere else?
Because my /var partition is filling up.
If you have another disk or empty space you can create a new filesystem on,
you can probably do something like the following:
Create the new filesystem,
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
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
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
Is there a reason why /var/spool/mail permissions are not 01777?
Because they don't need to be. The 775 permissions allow users to read
and write their own mail and for members of the 'mail' group to do the
same. Making the permissions 1777 will
