I have been trying to print a HUGE file recently and I think the spool file that was created in the process become huge enough to fill my entire root partition (and swap - I had about 3 gigs left before trying to print) and slowed my system to a crawl (3-finger salute was required to reboot). I have quite a bit of extra space on another partition and I was wondering if it is possible to move the directory where the spool files are created (I assume that directory to be /var/spool) to that partition.
I tried copying the directory to the new partition and renaming the original directory to spool.old. I then used ln -s to create a symlink (var/spool) pointing to the spool directory on the other partition. It didn't seem to work (I'll try a reboot just in case).
In the meantime, if anybody has any ideas on how to do this, I would like to know...
Colddiver
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