Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 21:50:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: skywalk@info.com.ph Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there a way Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002214753.26112G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970929171857.006a9ce0@pop.info.com.ph>
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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 skywalk@info.com.ph wrote: > is there a way how can i increase the capacity of my /var/spool/mail some > sort of mergin from a newly installed harddrive and merge it with the > /var/spool/mail. Yes. cd /newdisk mkdir mail chmod 775 mail chown bin:bin mail mv /var/mail/* mail cd /var rmdir mail ln -s mail /newdisk/mail Kill sendmail or drop to single-user mode while you're doing this to keep anyone from receiving mail while their mailbox is unaccessible. Someone correct me if that's wrong :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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