Spyros Tsiolis schreef:
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
A solution you could try is add a new server to the mix.
Leave the OS on the DL360 and put the mail data on a second machine.
Then use NFS to mount the new data store.
If you use a ZFS solution, expanding your data store is a no brainer.
146 GB drives are expensive, for 40 users SATA drives can do the job
without any problem.
gr
Johan Hendriks
