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> I had setup a mailserver few days back. later i realised that the
> var/spool partition wasnt adequate enough for all the mails. so i
> bought a new harddisk, renamed the /var/spool/mail , made a directory
> called mail in the new hardisk and copied all the stuff from the old
> mail directory to this new directory. next made a soft link in
> /var/spool called mail linking to my new harddisk.
>
> it didnt work out. when i fire pine, it says mailbox empty.
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The permissions were not preserved when you copied over
/var/spool/mail.old to /newhardisk/mail
Use tar with the -p switch to preserve the permissions like so:
cd /var/spool/mail.old
tar cvf - . && cd /newhardisk/mail/; tar xvf -
[WARNING! I have'nt tried this. Please try it out elsewhere before you
actually do it]
Thaths
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