/var/mail in a different partition

2007-12-25 10:09:00

Someone from Sun suggesteg that I use a symbolic link instead of just

mounting the partition with the real name.

Here is the original question:

> Hi fellow sysadmin,

> I thought it would be a good idea to place /var/mail in a partition by

> itself so I can control better the space of the inbox and the space of

> log and errors messages in the rest of /var so one wouldn't interfere

> with the other.

> The problem is the normal permissions,owner,group of /var/mail are:

> drwxrwxrwt root mail

> but after I mount a partition over it, it becomes:

> drwxrwxr-x root sys

The solution is to create a symbolic link like this:

ln -s /var/mail /varmail

then mount /varmail on the partition reserved to the inboxes.

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