From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 7 11: 6:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F24937B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net (ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net [216.35.73.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A121343E88 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lapinski@crd.ge.com) Received: from int-nj2gw-1.online-age.net (int-nj2gw-1 [3.159.236.65]) by ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net (8.12.3/8.9.1/990426-RLH) with ESMTP id g97I64XC011068; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:06:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from crdns.crd.ge.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by int-nj2gw-1.online-age.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/990426-RLH) with ESMTP id g97I5vWK003518; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:05:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from exc01crdge.crd.ge.com (exc01crdge.crd.ge.com [3.1.116.47]) by crdns.crd.ge.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g97I5uS03826; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:05:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by exc01crdge.crd.ge.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3XAHR3ZP>; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:05:55 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" To: "'jeremy@cableaz.com'" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:05:45 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -------------------------------------------------- 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 -> -> ->-------------------------------------------------------------------- ->mail2web - Check your email from the web at ->http://mail2web.com/ . -> -> -> ->To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ->with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message