"Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Mikael Jansson wrote on Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:11:08 GMT: > > The reason I ask this is because I noticed my system got a lot > > faster > > when I moved over all my email (10k files) to another volume than > > the > > boot volume, and now I intend to keep it that way, because of the > > ease- > > of-use when backing up (instead of having to do the zip -9ry > > dance.) > > [snip] > > If you reformat the drive (and recreate the new empty indices needed > for mail) and then copy over all the mail files (with Tracker or Zip to preserve the attributes), it will be noticably faster, for a while. > As I don't intend to keep email files on /boot, would it get any faster if I completely removed the email indices? -- Mikael Jansson http://mikael.jansson.be