[Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb

[Michescu Andrei]

Hello Spyros,

Oupss... the DL360 G4 has only 2 bays and no external SCSI/SATA
connector... so the solution below does not really apply to you :(

Andrei

> Hello Spyros,
>
> As "best practice" you never have the OS and the data/logs/user homes on
> the same partition or set of disks.
>
> If this is the case then your life is pretty easy:
>  -simply create the new set of partitions
>  -mount the new ones in a temporary location
>  -rsync (or copy everything from old partitions)
>  -Stop dovecot / all other daemons that might be using the data
>  -mount the new ones in the place of old ones, mount the old ones in the
> place of new ones
>  - rsync again (should be quick as not many things changed)
>  - start all your deamons again :P
>
> If you do not have separate partitions maybe this is the perfect time to
> look into that...
>
> I would also look into btrfs... might be a good pick for your new
> partitions.
>
> best regards,
> Andrei
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a DL360 G4 1U server that does a wonderfull job with dovecot
>> horde,
>> Xmail and OpenLDAP for a company and serving about 40 acouunts.
>>
>> The machine is wonderful. I am very happy with it.
>> However, I am running out of disk space.
>> It has two times 76Gb Drives in RAID1 (disk mirroring) and the capacity
>> has reached 82%. 
>>
>> I am starting of getting nervous.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a painless way to migrate the entire contents
>> directly
>> to another pair of 146Gb SCSI RAID1 disks ?
>>
>> I thought of downtime and using clonezilla, but my last experience with
>> it
>> was questionable. I remember having problems declaring disk re-sizing
>> from the smaller capacity drives to the larger ones.
>>
>> CentOS 5.5
>> Manual install of :
>>
>> Mysql
>> XMail (pop3/smtp)
>> ASSP (anti spam)
>> Apache / LAMP
>> and last but by no means list : Dovecot
>>
>> Dovecot -n :
>>
>> # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>> # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) ext3
>> base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
>> log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log
>> info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log
>> ssl_parameters_regenerate: 48
>> verbose_ssl: yes
>> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
>> login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
>> login_greeting: * Dovecot ready *
>> login_max_processes_count: 96
>> mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir
>> mail_plugins: zlib
>> auth default:
>>   verbose: yes
>>   debug: yes
>>   debug_passwords: yes
>>   passdb:
>>     driver: passwd-file
>>     args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
>>   passdb:
>>     driver: pam
>>   userdb:
>>     driver: static
>>     args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
>>   userdb:
>>     driver: passwd
>>
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated or any ideas you might have.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> spyros
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----
>> "I merely function as a channel that filters
>> music through the chaos of noise"
>> - Vangelis 
>>
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