>I have a system which has the fs setup as follows:
>
>Filesystem            Size  Used  Avail  Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/hda1              99M   72M    22M     77%   /
>/dev/hda7             4.2G  2.3M   4.0G      0%   /home
>/dev/hda6             478M  386M    68M     85%   /usr
>/dev/hda5             949M  139M   761M     15%   /usr/src
>
>
>As you can see, I have lots of free space on /dev/hda7, but very little
>on /.  Sendmail is giving me errors about not having enough space in
>/var/mqueue.  
>
>How can I move /var/* to /dev/hda7 ?

I'm not sure you want to move all of /var to /home.  That is dangerous in
single user mode.  Moving mqueue there would be fine, since sendmail is
normally not running in single user mode.

So, to get mqueue there, I'd do this (as root)

        kill sendmail
        mkdir -p /home/var/mqueue
        cd /home/var/mqueue
        (cd /var/mqueue >& /dev/null ; tar cf - *)|tar xvpf -
        [check to make sure that the tar copy worked]
        rm -r /var/mqueue
        ln -s /home/var/mqueue /var/mqueue
        start sendmail

I think you get the picture.

As I mentioned, I wouldn't blindly move all of /var to /home.

Any how, that is what I would do, others may do it differently.

MB
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