Make a symbolic link called /var/spool/mail that points
to /home or some directory beneath home. If you go ahead
and redo all your partitions anyways, for a mail server I would
make a 200 MB partition for the system and the rest for the
mail file system. Also, 128 MB swap is probably to much. I
maintained a mail server once that had only a 32 meg swap,
64 meg ram, and a pentium 133 cpu. It handled the load for
7000 dial-up customers easily, However, the one area that
will generate a bottleneck is the disk system. I would recommend
nothing less than UW SCSI and only quality disks. If this server
is going to see any serious action, I would definitely look at some
RAID controllers.
Good luck,
WC
Also, you can build sendmail (I assume you are using sendmail) to use
any directory for the mail files. I believe /var/spool/mail has been the
adopted standard and is used in all precompiled binaries.
-----Original Message-----
From: GateKeepeR News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Redhat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, May 14, 1998 4:25 PM
Subject: partitions?
>Hello,
>I have 4 partitions as follows:
>
>/ = 100mb
>/home = 1gb
>/usr = 600mb
>swap = 128mb
>
>This is a mail server, so I am guessing I screwed up and made the
>partitions the wrong size. mailboxes reside in /var/spool/mail/ if I am
>not mistaken. So I will most likely run out of room very quickly. Any
>ideas here as what I could do? I would have no problem killing the /home
>partition to redo things.. Thanks..
>
> Bryan
>
>
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