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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:08:16 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jim Bryant <jbryant@argus>
To:        chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: moving stuff
Message-ID:  <199704260008.TAA09809@argus>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970425124743.3646A-100000@Journey2.mat.net> from "Chuck Robey" at Apr 25, 97 12:50:03 pm

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> I was wondering if anyone knows the right way to move /var/spool into, 
> say, /usr?  I don't have a real large /root partition (30 megs) and 
> having the printer spool area there is a pain, while my /usr and /usr2 
> partitions are huge and available.  I don't see where lpr especially 
> allows for redirecting things.  I'd like to move mail, bu the printer 
> spooler is the worst offender.

take the machine into single-user...

mv /var/spool /usr
ln -s /usr/spool /var/spool
^D

transparent, and contents of the existing spool remain intact....

jim
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