[Dovecot] separate partition for index/uidlist

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Mar 11 19:53:41 EET 2007


On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 18:40 +0100, Daniel wrote:
> 
> What's a safe place for the separate index and uidlist files? I am 
> planning to configure Quota/FS. Can they reside under dovecot's 
> basedir? Is this a good idea? 

Dovecot's base_dir is usually under /var/run, which some OSes delete at
boot. So it's not a very good location for it.

> Does it have any significance where I put those files? 

No. Some people use eg. /var/indexes.

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