Another question on moving off CNFS

[DavSmith at esoc.esa.de]

Folks,

I have a machine with a 35 Gb disc mounted on /var/news/spool. Most of this is
given over to CNFS buffers. I'm trying to take the machine back to tradspool. So
how much of what is on that disc do I have to preserve. The buffers, obviously.
But would it be enough to mount that disc somewhere else on the filesystem,
create /var/news/spool/cnfs in a new filesystem mounted to hold the tradspool
storage, and then make a symbolic link to where the buffers actually are?

I can't make a new hierarchy on the higher level disc and mount the buffers on
that, because I can't mount anything other than the root of a filesystem, can I?
And I don't want to make a new filesystem and mount that on the existing
/var/news/spool/articles because then I'm stuck with the storage for the CNFS
buffers (which will be no use after a couple of weeks) hanging redundant on the
machine.

Your advice will be welcomed.

Dave Smith
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David O Smith AMBCS
Somerford Consultancy Ltd