On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Joe Vieira wrote: > Hi, > > So, We have an imap volume (ext3) that doesn't seem to come back up > clean after a few crashes. fsck is a mess. Shows clean; mount it; 30 > minutes later it's throwing errors and needs to be fsck'd again. (any > ideas about that i'd love to hear) > > So I am considering in the interest of getting these students back using > email, setting up a new volume, mount it as the same imap partition and > creating "shell" mailboxes for all the users on it, basically an empty > mailbox that I can let them log into, send and receive new mail, etc. > I was thinking about doing this by making the simple directory structure > for all the users then doing a reconstruct to make the cyrus.* files. > The plan would then be to restore from backup (or the corrupt drive in > read only). My concern however is that the UID of the messages will get > duplicated. Basically does this idea make ANY sense to you guys? Will > it work? Other ideas? One of those cyrus.* files should contain the max UID - I can't remember which. If you can restore/copy that across, it should (I think) number any new messages starting from there. Then you can restore/copy the original messages across later. I've never tried this before, so I may be getting it wrong. Hopefully someone with more in-depth knowledge of Cyrus can comment. Andy ---- 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
