Change location for Zimbra due to to smal partition

[fredde_se]

Hi Zimbra-users!

I did a little misstake when installing my os, SuSE 10.3.

I made this partitions:

/ 20G
/home 100G

I thought zimbra would install in a home-folder, (my mistake could have rtfm-first).

Now, / are running out of space but /home has lots of space!

My idea is to:
zmcontrol stop
cp -r /opt/zimbra /home/zimbra
mv /opt/zimbra /opt/zimbra_
ln -s /home/zimbra/ /opt/zimbra
zm controll start

Is this a bad idea?
Will this work?
Are there any folders that will grow that suits better to softlink?

Thanks in advance...

/Fredde

[uxbod]

Welcome to the forums

Have you only just installed ? Could you not re-install the O/S and ZCS ? You could always drop into single user mode, unmount /home and recreate it smaller, and then create a new partition for /opt/zimbra and mount it.

[fredde_se]

Hi and thanks for your answer. I just installed and tested it and migrated all accounts and have been running it for two weeks and then I saw the disk problem - DOH!

I must say Im impressed about the Zimbra software it is really good.

If the softlink solution works it is fine for me, do you see any problems with it?

Thanks again!

/Fredde

[uxbod]

Symlink will work fine ... Just ensure the permissions are okay.

[fredde_se]

Symlink will work fine ... Just ensure the permissions are okay.

Please, tell me about them!

My idea was to have same permissions for the
/home/zimbra as for /opt/zimbra

when I do the cp -r all permissions are copied correct, right?

Thanks,
Fredrik

[uxbod]

cp -rp {source} {target}

You need the 'p' to preserve permissions.

[olekaas]

Use rsync instead of cp. With the right options you can even make an unclean copy while zimbra is running and clean it up by an extra run when zimbra is stopped. This will keep your downtime low.

/Ole

[pagi]

And this works ??
I don't wont to reinstall os and zimbra.

Tell me what to do, and work.

[PhD]

ive done the symlink way before - theres no problems with it at all...

shutdown zimbra (zmcontrol stop as zimbra user)
rsync -av /opt/zimbra /home/ (leave the trailing slash off the zimbra folder, so its re-created under /home)
mv /opt/zimbra /opt/zimbra.bak
ln -s /home/zimbra /opt/zimbra

then you should have

zimbra -> /home/zimbra
zimbra.bak

when you ls in /opt

you should then be able to su - zimbra
and zmcontrol start again

ive also moved my whole zimbra installation to an nfs share and mounted it as /opt/zimbra - so that if theres a hardware fault with the server, i can litterally bring up another host with the same hostname/ip - re-present the nfs mount to it under /opt/zimbra and start it up there if need be.. (not sure if its a documented/supported practice though)

[pagi]

Thx PhD for help.
Everything is ok.

But right now ia must change mounting of /opt from md1 to md2 becouse i must downgrade zimbra network to open source.
When i try do this right now i get error it's inposible when zimbra used symlinks

Enybody can tell me what how to move mouting point from md1 to md2
md1 have 10GB
md2 have 2000GB

I cant move and install downgrade on md1 becouse zimbra need 5gb to reinstall.

Thx for any help.