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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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