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Date:      Wed, 04 Jun 1997 12:10:31 +0300
From:      Ruslan Shevchenko <rssh@cki.ipri.kiev.ua>
To:        muditha@seychelles.net
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Partitions
Message-ID:  <33953109.2608@cki.ipri.kiev.ua>
References:  <3395346A.4416@seychelles.net>

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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?
> 

Symbolics links.

I was have the same problem, and receive it by relinking /var into /usr,
(in /home in you case ?) i. e.
mv /var /var1

mkdir /usr/var
ln -s /usr/var  /var

and renaming /var partition to /var1 and relinking to it constant
subdirectory from usr.

ln -s /usr/what-you-want /var1

> --
> ---------------------
> Muditha Gunatilake
> Atlas Seychelles Ltd
> 
> Phone:304060
> email: muditha@seychelles.net
>            mbh3gpa@afs.mcc.ac.uk
>            muditha@creole.seychelles.net
> :-)



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