I use Cyrus, which writes each email message to a separate file on disk. I have a lot of mail. Is it OK to put this on the general /var partition, or are the optimal parameters so different that it really should be separate? I've encrypted /var, so making another encrypted partition means another prompt to deal with on startup. I'm hoping to avoid that. Either way, everything would be on the same physical disks (software RAID1). I'd also appreciate any hints about which parameters I should tune. Thanks. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 ross at biostat.ucsf.edu Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94107-1739 hm: (415) 550-1062