From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 14:03:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA23492 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:03:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA23487 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:03:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from P60 by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id QAA14871; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:00:46 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970313155841.01043ec0@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 15:58:42 -0600 To: Dan Wolfe From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Creating a directory link from one partition to another Cc: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:15 AM 3/13/97 -0500, Dan Wolfe wrote: >I would like to move my /var/mail directory, which is in the / partition, to the /usr partition. I was thinking of establishing a link to do this. Can anyone help me the steps involved to perform this. Any help is certainly appreciated. The easiest way would be to boot singler user mode (-s at the boot:) so that no mail will be written. Then: mv /var /usr cd / ln -s /usr/var /var One file, if you have lpd enabled (I think), will not move and you will have to delete it. This is what I do for every system install. More efficient to have var under /usr/var and share the partition. Now if you have a lot of mail traffic, then mouting another drive to /var would be better. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990