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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why does / change size with mail?
Message-ID: <1991May6.030318.28830@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 6 May 91 03:03:18 GMT
References: <26787@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In <26787@adm.brl.mil> tpm-sprl!tpm@uunet.uu.net (Terence P. Ma) writes:

>However, my mailbox is in /usr/spool/mail which is in "/usr", a separately
>mounted partition (and thus shouldn't affect "/").  I thought that maybe it
>was because when I was using mailtool (SunOS4.1.1; SS1+; OpenWindows) a file

Your mailbox is actually in /var/spool/mail, which is part of ``/''.
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-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-