FreeBSD, MailScanner and Diskspace

[Jan-Peter Koopmann]

On Thursday, April 29, 2004 4:35 AM Pete <mailto:pete at EATATHOME.COM.AU> wrote:

> Would it be unwise, break anything, cause instability etc if
> i changed the quarantine to a symlink to a dir on /usr ? The
> machine is remotely hosted now so changes partition sizes
> isnt on, and moving the dir altogether seems like a
> customization that may cause me trouble in the future?
> 
> Should i use a symlink or just move the dir to another
> partition? Love to hear any other suggestions, would it be

Symlink on quarantine shoul (!) work. You might as well setup another directory and put that in the MailScanner.conf though. Another clean solution would be to mount another partition to /var/spool/MailScanner that is if you have another partition free or can spare one. The cleanest solution would be to set the machine up again of course. 256M for /var is not that big in the first place. What about logfiles etc.? Depending on how you use the serve, a /var that small will give you trouble sooner or later.

> safe to ask a colleague who is fairly linux capable to use a
> Knoppix cd and qparted to mod the sizes, or do you think this
> is getting a bit risky?

Indeed. I would call that risky. Can you/the housing center attach a terminal to the computer that you could access?

> thanks for any input. (yes in feel silly for not having
> thought of this when i building it)

Well you should... :-) Happens only one time though. Been there myself.

Regards,
  JP

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