Why does / change size with mail?

[Gary Mills]

In <26787 at adm.brl.mil> tpm-sprl!tpm at 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-