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GMS attachments - relocate to new volume

MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago

We are running out of disk space. The server is a virtual and we can add disk with vsphere easy enough, but re-sizing the existing volume is not working. the volume is "busy" - - it is the only volume.

Is there any way to move (relocate) the attachments to a new volume ?

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0 Laura Buckley over 8 years ago

Hi,

Quick question - when partitioning your disk did you create /var as a separate partition?

Please let us know.

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0 thsundel over 8 years ago in reply to Laura Buckley

laurabuckley;2436555 wrote:
Hi,

Quick question - when partitioning your disk did you create /var as a separate partition?

Please let us know.

Cheers,

Addition to what Laura said do you use LVM?

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0 MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago in reply to thsundel

when entering "df" we get:
dev/sda2
udev
tmpfs
there is also a swap file at dev/sda1

regarding lvm ... I see an ext3 (/dev/sda2)
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0 Laura Buckley over 8 years ago in reply to MigrationDeletedUser

Hi,

Ok, you could create a new virtual disk, present the storage to your VM and move your entire /var directory to the new disk following this TID: https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7015338

I do not suggest moving just the attachments folder as that would no doubt break a ton of things. Rather relocate your entire /var directory as that is where GMS stores all of it's data.

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0 MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago in reply to Laura Buckley

Well, a good option, if not a great option - - thanks. We'll give you an update when we've completed the process. The TID looks within our skills.
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0 Laura Buckley over 8 years ago in reply to MigrationDeletedUser

Hi,

If it's any consolation, I'm no OS guru, I play with collaboration systems, but using that TID I've successfully move /var before. Please do let us know how it goes as we'd be very interested to hear back from you.

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0 MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago in reply to Laura Buckley

Not sure but:
Step 4 = cp to /mnt/newvar ... yet the mount point is /var/newvar ?
Step 6 = mkdir /var ---> then cp from /var/newvar to the newly createde /var ?

I've a backup, so trying to work through this.
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0 Laura Buckley over 8 years ago in reply to MigrationDeletedUser

Hi

It is possible that there are a few typo's in the TID - as far as my memory serves me, I mounted the new volume at /mnt/newvar and copied everything to that mount point.

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0 MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago in reply to Laura Buckley

Success following TID 7015338 ( Except step #2: specify mount point as /mnt/newvar)

hmmm "/mnt/newvar" is exactly what I did, and it makes sense, and it worked ... and except for a quick study of vi, all was pretty good. Disk space is great, messages and attachments are processing.
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0 MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago in reply to Laura Buckley

Success following TID 7015338 ( Except step #2: specify mount point as /mnt/newvar)

hmmm "/mnt/newvar" is exactly what I did, and it makes sense, and it worked ... and except for a quick study of vi, all was pretty good. Disk space is great, messages and attachments are processing.
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0 Laura Buckley over 8 years ago in reply to MigrationDeletedUser

Hi,

So glad that everything has worked out for you :) Thanks for letting us know.

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