From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 5 8:55:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wanlogistics.net (mail.wanlogistics.net [63.209.114.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 489B437B409 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:55:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (spdsl-033.wanlogistics.net [63.209.115.33]) by mail.wanlogistics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA53878; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:55:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill@wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f95Fsc302474; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:54:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:54:37 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: "Bill A. K." Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making mail dir bigger ASAP Message-ID: <20011005115437.A2446@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <000201c14db0$2da0a490$6501a8c0@bill> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000201c14db0$2da0a490$6501a8c0@bill>; from billak@fox56.tv on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:56:49AM -0400 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:56:49AM -0400, Bill A. K. thus sprach: > Hey, does anybody know how I can make the mail directory > (/var/mail) bigger...in a operating environment, or if i > stick in another hard drive, how do I change everything over > smoothly...please help, the server is full as we speak! I made a directory called /usr/mail. Then I just shut mail down for a moment or so. Moved the contents of /var/mail to /usr/mail. Moved /var/mail /var/mail-old and made a symlink to /usr/mail from /var/mail and restarted the mail system. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message