Zimbra store drive is full?? -Third-

It’s the third part of saving the zimbra email system from collapse because of insufficient space as explained at the first part. On the second part, I try to explained how to reserved some free space on emergency situation so we got some time/space privilege to carefully find solutions with minimum risk and minimum downtime.

After do some googling, I finally decide to add new hardisk on the server and move ‘zimbra greediest space part’ to the new hardisk.

The ‘greediest space’ part of zimbra is on /opt/zimbra/store which store the blob email message. So we will move the /opt/zimbra/store to the new hardisk. To minimize down time, we will use rsync to move the data.

Let’s dig deeper how I add the hardisk to the server and how to make it work seamlessly with current system.

1. Assume we already put hardisk that already ext4 formatted and located in /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_data, we will mount it into temporary place let say /data
   – Prepare directory for the new partition

   % mkdir /data
   

   – Change ownership of the directory to zimbra# chown zimbra:zimbra – Change permission of the directory to 755# chmod 755 /data– Check read/write/delete on the new directory for user zimbra

   % su - zimbra
   $ cd /data
   $ touch testfile
   $ rm testfile
   $ exit- Mount the partition to the /data
   % mount -t ext4 /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_data /data
   

2. Ensure that your drive is already mounted in /data

   % df -h
   

3. Now we copy the /opt/zimbra/store to /data, as stated before, we will use rsync to minimize problem and downtime.

   % rsync -avzHS /opt/zimbra/store/ /data
   

   This action will take time depending on how big is your data. After the sync finished, we will execute the last part, change the /opt/zimbra/store with the /data, this should be done carefully yet quickly.

4. Stop zimbra service

   % su - zimbra
   $ zmcontrol stop
   

5. Rsync /opt/zimbra/store to /data, why we have to do another rsync? Because after we did the first sync, there is a big possibility some email in/out from/to the zimbra, and we have to ensure that those data will also moved. We do the second rsync AFTER we stop the zimbra service so the data on /opt/zimbra/store is final.

   % rsync -avzHS /opt/zimbra/store/ /data &
   

6. Move the current /opt/zimbra/store to another folder and create new /opt/zimbra/store as container to the new partition

   % mv /opt/zimbra/store /opt/zimbra/store_bak
   % mkdir /opt/zimbra/store
   % chown zimbra:zimbra /opt/zimbra/store
   % chown 755 /opt/zimbra/store
   % sudo - zimbra
   $ touch /opt/zimbra/store/testfile
   $ rm /opt/zimbra/store/testfile
   $ exit
   

7. Unmount /data than mount it to /opt/zimbra/store

   % umount /data
   % mount -t ext4 /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_data /opt/zimbra/store
   

8. Check that the mounting process is done

   % df -h
   

9. Start the zimbra service

   % su - zimbra
   $ zmcontrol start
   

That all step we need to move the /opt/zimbra/store, after some time, and you already ensure that the system is stable, you may delete /opt/zimbra/store_bak to reserve another ‘huge’ free space.. DONE