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From: Brian Weber <root@cbiowa.com>
To: Muditha Gunatilake <muditha@seychelles.net>
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Subject: Re: Partitions
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Muditha Gunatilake wrote:

> Hi,
> We are using POP and SMTP for our mail. The /var partition is almost
> full and everyday have to get people to remove large mails files to keep
> alive. What is the best way to add a new hard disk or reallocate some
> space from /home which has quite a bit of space left
> 
  I just did this same thing.  I moved my log files to the home directory 
and them deleted the log directory and created a link from /home/log to 
/var/log with this command 'ln -s /home/log /var/log'  That did the trick.



Brian Weber
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