/var space full not sure what to do with mail 1

[bkonner]

Hi,

I made a posting in the general Linux server section, but I decided to do a posting here too.

My problem is that my var partition is too small. I added a hard drive to the /var partition. How do I redirect the /var/spool/mail to /var/incoming (my new hard drive)? I thought if I added a hard drive and moved mail to the new directory in /var this would work, but I can tell its not going to. I know I have to make configuration changes. I followed a suggestion of another post in the general Linux Server section, but it does not solve the hard disk space problem.

Any idea what I should do?

Thanks,

 

[benzino]

Hi,

I think that you should mount new created filesystem in /var/spool/mail directory instead of /var/incoming.

1. stop sendmail
2. copy (or move) all files from /var/spool/mail to /var/incoming
3. unmount /var/incoming
4. mount new created filesystem in /var/spool/mail
5. start sendmail

 

[bkonner]

This was a great idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks!