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On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Sysman wrote:

> The /var/spool/mail where all mail spool files are is long in my machine.
> Should I do something with this?

If you aren't having performance problems now, it's not as critical.
Basically, it's your opinion - if you think you will grow soon and might
get performance problems, implement some sort of multi-disking for
/var/spool/mail, otherwise you can leave it like this.. Multi-disking
can be done this way (there are, of course, number of other ways):

 [example with load split across 2 disks]

 mount mail-disk-1 on /var/spool/mail/dsk1
 mount mail-disk-2 on /var/spool/mail/dsk2

 link /var/spool/mail/a to dsk1/a
  ...
 link /var/spool/mail/m to dsk1/m
 link /var/spool/mail/n to dsk2/n
  ...
 link /var/spool/mail/n to dsk2/n

 link /var/spool/mail/auser to a/auser
 link /var/spool/mail/buser to b/buser

 (i.e. link everyone's mail file to [first letter]/[username])

This way, when they access /var/spool/mail/user, they'll be sent to
/var/spool/mail/u/user which is a link to /var/spool/mail/dsk2/u/user.

This solution, though, imposes some overhead and maintenance issues - i.e.
having to maintain all these symlinks to the right place, etc. You could
change it to not having any symbolic links but then you'll have to make
sure all your mail software is aware of the way you are handling mail
(e.g. popper, pine, sendmail, etc).

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