Re: [Evolution] Is it possible to move local to an different hd?

[mario chiari <ml mariochiari net>]

On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 15:45 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 16:29 +0100, mario chiari wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am running of space on my Linux machine, or better my setting is: 
> >  
> > -- The usual Linux filesystem Mounted on / (/dev/sda2),     where Used
> > 142.63 GiB
> > (95%) / Unused 7.37 GiB (5%)
> > -- a secondary hd, Mounted on /data (/dev/sdb1), where Used 299.66 GiB (32%)
> > /
> > Unused 631.85 (68%)
> >
> > My /root/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/ is about 30GiB. Is there a way
> > to
> > move it under /data, and still have Evolution working fine and fast? 
>
> You will get a lot of people saying this:
>
> Do not login and run your desktop as root.  Just don't.  Move to a real
> user and then su/sudo to root.  
>
> And no, you should not move the /root folder to anywhere else. It
> should be on the / partition.
>
> Oh, and remember DO NOT login as root.

Not the /root folder of course, just the /local folder witht all the mail files.

With respect to the not-login-as-root issue, what i would need to move under a
\home\mario folder?  Right now, if I login as a user mario and launch Evolution,
I get everything empty. 

m.

> P.
>
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