From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 05:37:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA17806 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 05:37:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA17801 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 05:37:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01750; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:36:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA28464; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:36:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990107143625.00a0c4d0@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 14:36:25 +0100 To: Jason McKay , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: Moving Mail Files to new Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19990107120031.006cd9ac@webace.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 20.00 07/01/99 +0800, you wrote: >Our hard disk is almost full, I would like to move the mail files to another >drive. How is this done? One simple way: replace the directory /var/mail with a link to a directory placed in the filesystem where you want to store the user mail files. For example: mv /var/mail /foo/mail ln -s /foo/mail /var/mail --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message