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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail...
Date: 15 Dec 1996 00:30:50 GMT
Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
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:In article <p4uiv65277r.fsf@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
:Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
:>Matt > NEVER, NEVER mount /var/spool/mqueue as it's own partition...
:>Matt > you not only can't rename it, you can't clear the blocks
:>Matt > allocated to the directory either!
:>
:>Kyle> But a separate partition is a win if your system crashes. All
:>Kyle> these strange files appear in lost+found. It's much easier to
:>Kyle> write a program to relink the files into the right directories
:>Kyle> when you know that all of them are related to the mail system.
:>
:>You could have it both ways if the queue area was on a separate fs but
:>in a subdirectory on that fs.
Yes, exactly. On most systems, /var/spool is used mostly by mail,
and not used much by anything else. Therefore mounting /var/spool
as a separate partition is usually an excellent solution to the
problem, with mqueue as a subdirectory.
-Matt