Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:05:45 -0400 From: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" <lapinski@crd.ge.com> To: "'jeremy@cableaz.com'" <jeremy@cableaz.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Message-ID: <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD705CFEF23@XMB03CRDGE>
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A practice ive usually taken is to keep the dirs
where a lot of space is used on different physical
devices and keep them redundant (raided /var/spool).
-Running a real mail server off of a 1 hard disk
install isn't wise. (What happens when your 1 disk
mail server loses its disk?)
-keeping system bins and config on the same physical
device with data that is constatly causing reading
and writing to disk (new mail coming in, old mail deleting)
isnt a good idea either. As the disks for this take
more abuse than the disk that just has the system installed
I think you need to architect a real mail server instead of
trying to rescue what you currently have.
-mtl
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Michael Lapinski
Computer Scientist
GE Research
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
->-----Original Message-----
->From: jeremy@cableaz.com [mailto:jeremy@cableaz.com]
->Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:56 PM
->To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
->Subject: Server out of space -- Need suggestions
->
->
->Quick question for anyone out there. I have a mail server
->that is running
->out of space. That being said, I have two choices... Should I
->backup all the
->necessary info, and add a bigger drive and then reload and restore, or
->should I add a second drive and move all the excess data to that? Any
->suggestions would be helpful.
->
->Thanks,
->JB
->
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