From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 04:54:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA07026 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 04:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ivory.lm.com (ivory.lm.com [192.231.221.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA07020 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 04:54:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from peterb@localhost) by ivory.lm.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA20691; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 07:54:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 07:54:03 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Berger X-Sender: peterb@ivory.lm.com To: Bill Henderson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spliting Newsgroups accross partiotions ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Mentos: The Freshmaker! X-Request-Do: resolve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Bill Henderson wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to split say the alt. group across partitions ? > > have a drive /dev/sd1a that I just added and would like to > put just the alt. group on it using INN 1) Throttle (or shutdown) your news server. 2) Move the tree over (using tar or the newfangled mv) 3) Create a symlink in the old tree. 4) Read the INN FAQ and change the flags in the many, many scripts which will cause INN to completely fail utterly and didactically if you are using multiple partitions and haven't read the INN faq. "The law locks up both man and woman / Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose / Who steals the common from the goose." -anon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Berger - peterb@telerama.lm.com - http://www.lm.com/~peterb