Writing to the root directory of disk partitions

["Wilson Tuma" <wilson@douala1.com>]

Hi list

On a new mail server I place the   /var/log/spool/mail   on a different
partition /dev/hda7

The command that mounts this valume is

  mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /var/log/spool/mail in  the file
/etc/rc2.d/S99rmnologin

The problem I have is send mail can seem to be able to write to
/var/log/spool/mail/

Could this have any thing do  with the lost&found directory  on the root  of
the new partion? Or is there something else I am leaving out.

Please help

TIA.

WFT