my /var is ful how do i move /spool/mail to another partition

[rseshan]

hi folks

my /var is 99% full.

mails ahve stopped going in our out.

now i know that i can move the var/spool/mail to another partition which has space.

but the point is how.

i have created varmail in /home/admin/

and have copied all the files from /var/spool/mail/
to /home/admin/varmail

but now what.

i am stuck on how to link them.

please help

rgds

ram

 

[vandal]

try symlinking them.

ln -s <target dir> <source dir>

so if i had /home/justin

and wanted to like that to /backup/justin it would be

cd /home

rm -rf justin

ln -s /backup/justin justin

 

[rseshan]

i did this

hi

what i did was configured exim to runout of /home/admin/varmail instead.

seems to be working fine now.

will this create any issue.

rgds

ram