From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 6 08:57:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03656 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:57:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.gamespot.com (ns2.gamespot.com [206.169.18.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA03651 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ian@localhost) by ns2.gamespot.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA23379; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:57:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Kallen To: Paul Sondhu cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with root filesystem becoming full In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes, move it and create a symbolic link to the new location. I disable any daemons that might want to access it while I do this (kill sendmail and turn popper off in inetd). /var/mail & /var/spool have to be big enough to handle the mail traffic. On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Paul Sondhu wrote: > Is it possible to move the /var/mail directory onto a different partition > and then create a symbolic link to this new directory without incurring > any problems? This would greatly improve our disk space problem. We have -- Ian Kallen ian@gamespot.com Director of Technology and Web Administration SpotMedia Communications http://www.gamespot.com/ http://www.videogamespot.com/