[KLUG Members] Need more space for /var

[Matt Terry]

LVM will work if you patch the kernel.. Once you start linking 
directories to seperate partitions things just get messy...


ieter Buxton extolled:
> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 05:23:13PM -0500, Bob Kanaley wrote:
> 
> > I need to get some more space for /var until I can get the time to
> > rebuild the real mail server. I know the best answer to this is to use
> > Logical Volume Manager to dynamically allocate space, but RedHat 7.0
> > doesn?t support LVM. I don?t want to go through an OS
> > upgrade/replacement and learn how to set up LVM while my mail server
> > is down and I have 50 angry people standing outside my office. I need
> > this fix to be as quick and clean as possible.
> 
> Find the biggest chunk of free space on a partition. Add a disk, if you like.
> Shut down POP3/SMTP.
> `mv /var/spool/mail /new/spot`.
> Make sure you've preserved the permissions -- `ls -ld /new/spot/mail`.
> `ln -s /new/spot/mail /var/spool/mail`.
> Restart POP3/SMTP.
> 
> Should take about 3 minutes, with double-checking.
> 
> And you should make sure the mbox files are in one piece, and weren't
> corrupted.
> 
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