Hello all,
I would like to thank you all for your kind replies and
feedback in regards to migrating from a smaller hdd to a
bigger one (namely from 72gb to 146gb).
I finally found a painless way of doing this.
Since I believe that this is still an off-topic post, if
anyone is interested in the
On 9/25/2012 12:29 AM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
My clients don't invest in hardware. I live in Greece. Things are really
bad right now. Not that if they were better they (the client) would invest
in their infrastructure.
...
Thank you very much Stan for you kind reply.
I reply to you in
On 9/24/2012 7:42 PM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
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
Spyros Tsiolis schreef:
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
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb
Am 24.09.2012 19:42, schrieb Spyros Tsiolis:
Hello all,
%%%%%%%%
rsync
should do the job
depending on your whole machine setup it might only be only
umount old /home and mount new(bigger) /home
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)
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
Am 24.09.2012 19:42, schrieb Spyros Tsiolis:
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.
This is one of those questions which is almost too easy if you are
familiar with Linux. Trying not to sound like a d*ck, but is it an
option to rent someone to help with admin jobs? For example, were it me
then I would probably have setup some partitioning scheme with separate
partitions for
Hello Spyros,
Oupss... the DL360 G4 has only 2 bays and no external SCSI/SATA
connector... so the solution below does not really apply to you :(
Andrei
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
Am 24.09.2012 20:07, schrieb Michescu Andrei:
Hello Spyros,
Oupss... the DL360 G4 has only 2 bays and no external SCSI/SATA
connector... so the solution below does not really apply to you :(
Andrei
depends how long downtime is acceptable
i.e go rsync tmp over usb storage, or simple
tmp
- Original Message -
From: Michescu Andrei andrei.miche...@miau.ca
To: Dovecot Mailing List dovecot@dovecot.org
Cc:
Sent: Monday, 24 September 2012, 21:07
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb
Hello Spyros,
Oupss... the DL360 G4 has only 2 bays and no external SCSI/SATA
On 24/09/2012 19:07, Ed W wrote:
This is one of those questions which is almost too easy if you are
familiar with Linux. Trying not to sound like a d*ck, but is it an
option to rent someone to help with admin jobs? For example, were it
me then I would probably have setup some partitioning
- Original Message -
From: Ed W li...@wildgooses.com
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Cc:
Sent: Monday, 24 September 2012, 21:55
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb
On 24/09/2012 19:07, Ed W wrote:
This is one of those questions which is almost too easy if you are familiar
with Linux
- Original Message -
From: Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Cc:
Sent: Monday, 24 September 2012, 21:06
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb
Am 24.09.2012 19:42, schrieb Spyros Tsiolis:
Hello all
Spyros Tsiolis skrev den 24-09-2012 19:42:
Any help would be appreciated or any ideas you might have.
try google centos cloud server
if you would like to do it local, use all 4 drives with 2 raid1 in the
same controller if possible, then use sysrescue cd to tar it all over to
the other
Spyros Tsiolis skrev den 24-09-2012 20:42:
Having said that, would it be possible to take
away on 72Gb drive (say Drive1 the second drive)
and shove in one of the two 146Gb ones ?
this can be done yes, but you will have to do more steps :)
first step, remove one drive
add the 146 drive
wait
On 9/24/2012 1:42 PM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
Having said that, would it be possible to take
away on 72Gb drive (say Drive1 the second drive)
and shove in one of the two 146Gb ones ?
It's always best to manually take a drive off line before pulling it.
Shouldn't the array be rebuilt ?
On 09/24/2012 01:42 PM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
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.
On 09/24/2012 10:59 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
We've done this on the same hardware. You can pick up these servers for
cheap; just buy an extra one. Take the new machine, throw two big disks
in it, and install Gentoo.
I seem to have gone insane, I thought this was on gentoo-user for some
Am 24.09.2012 21:24, schrieb Spyros Tsiolis:
- Original Message -
From: Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Cc:
Sent: Monday, 24 September 2012, 21:06
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb
Am 24.09.2012 19:42, schrieb Spyros Tsiolis:
Hello all
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