Hello,
is there any safe way how to move maildirs with messages from one partition to another??
Just copy them.
I tried (just for test) to copy maildirs with messages onto another partition and after that no messages were delivered (even after
Then you forgot to do something else. Just moving the files does not magically result in the server knowing the mailboxes' new location. You have to do something else to reconfigure the server to know where mail is to be delivered, from now on.
restarting courier). I understand, that the naming of the message files in maildirs is somehow connected to inode numers (or so...) so plain `mv /old/path/maildir /new/path/maildir` across partitions (filesystems) doesn't work.
This is only a problem if the system clock gets reset. As long as the whole process takes more than a single second, there is no issue.
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