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 >> >> >> >> > > > > !DSPAM:5060a006309197419291868! > >