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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
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?

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                                                     */
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