From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 4 04:15:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA19679 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 04:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from firewall.proventum.net (firewall.proventum.dk [194.19.131.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA19629 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 04:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from indy4.proventum.net (indy4.proventum.net [192.19.131.143]) by firewall with ESMTP (DuhMail/2.0) id MAA22884; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 12:32:50 +0200 Received: from localhost by indy4 (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1042) id NAA01607; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 13:13:44 +0200 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 13:13:44 +0200 (MDT) From: Christoffer Walther To: Muditha Gunatilake cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitions In-Reply-To: <3395346A.4416@seychelles.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Muditha, Make a symbolic link from /var/mail to the actual place where you store the mail, in your case it could be the /home partition. Or simply add a new disk to hold mailboxes, mailqueue etc. Its very easy to add a new disk, just use the /stand/sysinstall custom option. If you prefer the first alternative you should kill sendmail, mv /var/mail to /home/mail and then "cd /var; ln -s /home/mail mail" . I wont recommend making /home smaller and /var bigger. It will prob ruin all data on the partitions. :-) MVH, Christoffer Walther Unix Admin & Hostmaster PROVENTUM 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? > > -- > --------------------- > Muditha Gunatilake > Atlas Seychelles Ltd > > Phone:304060 > email: muditha@seychelles.net > mbh3gpa@afs.mcc.ac.uk > muditha@creole.seychelles.net > :-) >