[plug] Exim mailbox relocation

Shayne shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au
Sun Dec 1 02:08:49 WST 2002


Certainly looks the easiest way.

But;-. 2.2.20 kernel :(

Whats easiest way to move to 2.4 without turning the whole dam machine into
silly putty?

On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:22, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Your best bet in this situation is to export the directory on the 80gig
> > drive, and mount it on the mail machine as /var/spool/mail or
> > whatever...
> >
> > All the usual cautions about cross-mounting mail spools (and other
> > important directories) applies.
>
> You no longer need that kludge, just bind mount the directories - no NFS
> required.
>
> mount -o bind /mnt/80gig/var_spoool_mail /var/spool/mail
>
> for example.
>
> 2.4 kernel needed but I doubt that'd be a problem.



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