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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!centauri.hq.nasa.gov!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!usenet From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail... Date: 13 Dec 1996 21:24:56 -0500 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 11 Message-ID: <p4uiv65277r.fsf@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <58i45b$apn@nntp1.best.com> <58i81f$ajf@crystal.WonderWorks.COM> <58j08h$1mn@nntp1.best.com> <58k95h$s3b@crystal.WonderWorks.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov In-reply-to: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com's message of 10 Dec 1996 13:12:01 -0500 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:35161 comp.mail.smail:2705 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32545 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.