I moved my /var/mail partition to a different disk drive
by:
creating a new ext4 partition
mounting it as /newvarmail
copying the contents of the old /var/mail partition to it
unmounting both the old and new mail partitions
updating the /etc/fstab entry by
chainging the partition name
changing the file system to ext4 from ext3
mounting the new one as /ver/mail
Everything seems to work smoothly except for one thing:
When I read a new message in mutt, the 'N' indicaating it is new does not disappear after reading it.
(And one time only, mutt mentioned that the mail file was read-only.)
ls tells me
-rw------- 1 hendrik mail 102495117 May 20 08:06 hendrik
and for the old var/mail, it tells me
-rw------- 1 hendrik mail 102369929 May 20 07:34 /oldvarmail/hendrik
much the same except that I seem to have received some more mail.
-- hendrik