quarantine directory change

[Gavin Silver]

Thanks ill take a look at the mount --bind option, is there any specific reason you can think of _not_ to use a sym link though?



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Gavin Silver

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Brendan Pirie
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:56 PM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: quarantine directory change

Gavin Silver wrote:
> whats the best way to move /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine directory  
> on a running system to some subdirectory in /home/
>
> my original partition setup on my relay was not designed for  
> mailscanner and this "dev" box quickly became a production server  
> because of the awesomeness of mailscanner
>
> I currently have only 6GB avail in /var and over 200GB in /home
>
> I assume this is more of a linux system question (im using ubuntu 8.04  
> LTS)
>
> ..maybe i can use symlinks and then not change any config files?
>   
This might be an appropriate situation to implement mount's --bind 
feature instead of using a link.
> but of course i am asking because im sure there is a few ways to do it  
> with some being a better choice for the long term (e.g. upgrading  
> mailscanner)
>
> wondering if anyone has done similar
>
> thanks in advance
>
> cheers
>
> -Gavin
>   

Brendan
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