Hi, Our server is suffering from impending doom, while servicing 11,500 users. Our mail store is in the default location under /var/spool/imap. The partition that / (/var is under here in our setup) is mounted on is 25 GB and I would like to move it to the partition where /home is mounted which has 1+ TB available. We have considered several solutions. The chosen solution would have minimal downtime and minimal chance of failure. 1) Repartitioning: Down the server and boot from a rescue platform. Backup and Resize /home. Create a new partition in the free space formerly occupied by /home. Copy /var to the new partition. Rename the existing /var. Edit fstab and boot. 2) Swaping mount points: Down the server and boot from a rescue platform. Move the contents of /home to a folder on the smaller drive. Copy /var to the larger drive. Modify fstab. 3) Migrating between mail stores Create a new mail store under /home and migrate the mail boxes? Not sure how or if we can do this. Please let me know your opinion on these solutions and any new suggestions are welcome and appreciated. Larry Wickham larry.wickham@xxxxxxxx Systems Operations Specialist Eastern New Mexico University 1500 S. Ave K Portales, NM 88130 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
