Cyrus imapd question

[Sasa Stupar]

--On mercredi 13 avril 2005 08:52 -0500 Aleksandar Milivojevic 
<amilivojevic at pbl.ca> wrote:

> Sasa Stupar wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am running FC3 as mailserver with sendmail+cyrus-imapd and everything
>> works fine. Now I am going out of space on the HDD and I am thinking to
>> add a new one which will server for cyrus only. So how do I tell cyrus
>> to use that other drive instead of /var/spool/imap ?
>> And also is it enough just to copy this directory to a new location or
>> do I need to do something else like reconstruction or similar.
>
> If you are using LVM, the simplest thing (as already suggested) would be
> defining additional disk as LVM physical volume.  Create partition, tag
> it as Linux LVM (8e), import it into LVM (pvcreate), add it to existing
> LVM volume group, and simply grow the logical volume and then /var file
> system.
>
> Another simple solution would be to mount new disk as /var/spool/imap.
> Stop the IMAP server and sendmail, mount new disk as /mnt, copy all data,
> and remount the disk:
>
>     # stop imap and sendmail before doing this
>     mount /dev/new_disk /mnt
>     cd /var/spool/imap
>     tar cf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xpf -)
>     cd ..
>     mv imap imap.old # backup copy, remove when not needed
>     mkdir imap
>     umont /mnt
>     # edit /etc/fstab and add line for /var/spool/imap
>     mount /var/spool/imap
>     # start imap and sendmail
>
> When you are happy that all is working, you can delete imap.old directory
> to free some disk space.
>
> You could have mounted new disk somewhere else and made a symbolic link
> from /var/spool, however, if SELinux policy files are ever extended to
> include separate set of rules for Cyrus-IMAPD, they will by default
> expect mailstore to live in /var/spool/imap.  So you'd save yourself some
> work by having things in defualt places.

Thank you all guys. I will use LVM since I have my two existing drives 
allready configured in LVM.

Sasa

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