[plug] moving mailman archives off the main partition?

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Wed Oct 29 19:00:00 WST 2003


On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 06:31:10PM +0800, Quintin Lette wrote:
> If it was me I would be more inclined to mount the filesystem at that point
> ie:
> 
> init 1
> mv /var/lib/mailman/archives/ /mnt/hdb1/
> umount /mnt/hdb1 ; mount -t {fs type} /dev/hdb1 /var/lib/mailman/archives
> init 5
> 
> as symlinks don't work very well for somethings but that is just my opinion 
> and I'm sure other people will beg to differ.

Or use the --bind option on mount:

mount --bind /path/to/real/mailman/archives /var/lib/mailman/archives

Simple :)

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham 
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