I would stop Surgemail. Copy the directory structure and files over to
the new location and then create the symlink. Should only take a minute
or two.
Then you don't have to worry about any of that and it will just work.
Lyle
On 12/23/11 20:06, Jeff Crowe wrote:
> Hi Lyle,
>
>> sounds like you are runing a *nix system. Just make a symlink to /opt
>>from /usr/local/surgemail/opt
>
> Yes, a *nix system.
>
> Creating the symlink would be the easiest, but unfortunately in the existing /opt/Surgemail directory there is an existing work folder that almost appears to be doing the same thing as the /usr/local/Surgemail/opt folder.
>
> The original folder is:
>
> /usr/local/Surgemail/opt/work/domain.tld/ (then broken down into a,b,c..z)
>
> in /opt it looks like:
>
> /opt/Surgemail/work/domain.tld/ (again, broken down into a,b,c..z)
>
>
> When I run a 'find ./ -mtime -1' to list all files modified in the last 24hrs, both folders have new files modified in them within the last day, but with different create times and different filename.body files.
>
>
> So here come more questions:
>
> - can I safely nuke one copy of this (the /usr/local/Surgemail/opt obviously) and create that symlink?
> - if I nuke that folder structure, what impact on clients will it have? If minimal, such as the imap client needs to re-download message body's and indexes need to be rebuilt this is fine, if major like the email has gone the way of the dodo, probably not a good idea 27 hours before Christmas.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff Crowe
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyle Giese [mailtoHIDDEN@crcomputer.info]
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 8:46 PM
> To: surgemailHIDDEN@etwinsite.com
> Subject: Re: [SurgeMail List] Disk space issue
>
> On 12/23/11 18:55, Jeff Crowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have an issue where my drive with /usr/local/Surgemail is full and I
>> am not sure how to move/delete/clean up enough space to keep this
>> running. I have setup my system to have the following partition/drive setup:
>>
>> / - 8GB 0% free
>>
>> /opt - 2TB 84% free
>>
>> I have setup all my virtual domains to store their mail in
>> /opt/Surgemail/domain.tld/etc, but for some reason, I am finding current
>> files in /usr/local/Surgemail/opt/Surgemail/work/domain.tld/. It almost
>> appears as if the IMAP component is using the
>> /usr/local/surgemail/opt/Surgemail/work/domain.tld for caching files or
>> storing saved messages.
>>
>> -Is there a way of cleaning out this folder (it is using 6.4GB of my 8GB
>> available) without impacting my clients?
>>
>> -Is there a configuration setting to force Surgemail to use
>> /opt/Surgemail for this IMAP caching (or for whatever is being written
>> to the /usr/local/Surgemail/opt folder)?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jeff Crowe
>>
>
> sounds like you are runing a *nix system. Just make a symlink to /opt
> from /usr/local/surgemail/opt
>
> Lyle
>
>
>
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