Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 20:30:00 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Muditha Gunatilake <muditha@seychelles.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970604202538.9382G-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3395346A.4416@seychelles.net>
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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? Hi, The simplest thing to do is: 1. kill sendmail and inetd 2. cd /var 3. mkdir /home/var 4. cp -Rp mail /home/var 5. mv mail mail.old ; ln -s /home/mail mail 6. Restart sendmail and inetd /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ /* HiLink Internet <http://www.hilink.com.au/>; danny@hilink.com.au */ /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */
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