Giuseppe Ravasio wrote: > Hi, > i need to move a big mailbox (about 20GB) to a new partition. Obiouvsly the > idea is doing something like: > cyradm> renm big/mailbox big/mailbox newpartition > > I think that the system will need about half an hour to move mailbox files to > the new location (another disk), i would like to know what will happen if in > the meantime someone sends an email to this mailbox?!?! > Will this lock LMTP deliver? Will this generate some corruption? > Do you suggest me to put the server offline as a precaution? The mailbox will be locked and lmtpd will return a temporary failure to your MTA, which should then queue the message for redelivery. -- Kenneth Murchison Systems Programmer Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer Carnegie Mellon University ---- 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
