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:50609d2c301831828332458! > >
