From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 22 0:23:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from helios.soupnazi.org (helios.soupnazi.org [64.81.252.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25FFE37B406 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 00:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Received: by helios.soupnazi.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1D08E3275; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 00:23:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 00:23:28 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Brown - Ozxpress Support Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need help with mailserver Message-ID: <20010822002327.A19881@helios.soupnazi.org> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: <001301c12ad7$62f8eae0$e66386cb@cnnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001301c12ad7$62f8eae0$e66386cb@cnnet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 at 16:55:10 +1000, Brown - Ozxpress Support wrote: > Hi, i have just done a fresh install of freebsd 4.3 using the default > partition sizes, and /var is so small that it keeps filling up with > mail. Is there an easy way to either resize the partition without > losing data, or to move the mail to a new location? * Kill off your MTA (sendmail, I'm assuming). * Copy /var/mail to /usr/local/mail or somesuch. * rm -rf /var/mail * ln -fs /usr/local/mail /var/mail * restart your MTA - jim -- jim mock tech writer | iXsystems, Inc. http://soupnazi.org/ work: jim@ixsystems.net | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message