<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I created a symbolic link for /var/zendto pointing at /data/zendto on a
different partition.
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<br>i.e.
<br>
<br>mv <i class=""><span class="">/</span>var/zendto /data<span class="">/</span></i>
<br>ln -s /data/zendto /var/zendto
<br>
<br>ls -al /var
<br>
<br>lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 13 Sep 13 2011 zendto -> <i class=""><span class="">/</span>data/zendto<span class="">/</span></i>
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<br>Using an NFS directory would be the same procedure
<br>
<br>e.g. Using automount to directory /net/nasserver/data/zendto
<br>
<br>and CIFs too.
</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, 30 October 2013, 13:51, Jules Field <Jules@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">I would just put /var/zendto on the NAS. No need at all to move the rest <br clear="none">of /var.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Jules.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 30/10/2013 13:29, Steve Campbell wrote:<br clear="none">> Jules,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Are you saying the /var partition needs to be on the NAS? Symbolic links<br clear="none">> OK for pointing from the local /var/zendto to the 3 directories?<br clear="none">><br
clear="none">> thanks for the reply.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> steve<br clear="none">> On 10/30/2013 8:14 AM, Jules wrote:<br clear="none">>> The important bit is that<br clear="none">>> /var/zendto/dropoffs<br clear="none">>> /var/zendto/incoming<br clear="none">>> /var/zendto/library<br clear="none">>> are on the same filesystem.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> As long as that's okay, you should be able to use a NAS box for it.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Jules.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> On 29/10/2013 17:54, Steve Campbell wrote:<br clear="none">>>> I was just wondering if it matters if I use a CIFS (as defined by<br clear="none">>>> Webmin) mount for storage? I've got some servers that are no longer in<br clear="none">>>> use
with older Raid cards in them. The size of drives they handle is no<br clear="none">>>> where near the capacity I would have with the CIFS- mounted Buffalo<br clear="none">>>> TerraStations.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> Thanks for any opinions.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> steve campbell<br clear="none">>>> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">>>> ZendTo mailing list<br clear="none">>>> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ZendTo@zend.to" href="mailto:ZendTo@zend.to">ZendTo@zend.to</a><br clear="none">>>> <a shape="rect" href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/zendto" target="_blank">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/zendto</a><br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> Jules<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> -- <br clear="none">>>> Julian Field
MEng MBCS CITP CEng<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> 'I have lost friends, some by death ... others through sheer inability<br clear="none">>>> to cross the street.' - Viginia Woolf<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> www.Zend.To<br clear="none">>>> Twitter: @JulesFM<br clear="none">>>> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654<br clear="none">>> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">>> ZendTo mailing list<br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ZendTo@zend.to" href="mailto:ZendTo@zend.to">ZendTo@zend.to</a><br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/zendto" target="_blank">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/zendto</a><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br
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