Data Directory

[BradRT]

Doing a new installation.

What is /opt/zimbra/data used for?

How much disk space does it need?

I read the documentation and the only directories I was worrying about are;

/opt/zimbra/store, db, index and log,

Thanks

Brad

[speno]

It's a bit like /var, IMO. It hold temp files and spool files for postfix.

drwxrwxrwt 14 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 24 16:50 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x 7 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 19 2011 amavisd/
drwxr-xr-x 3 postfix zimbra 4096 Oct 10 2010 postfix/
drwxr-xr-x 2 zimbra zimbra 4096 Oct 10 2010 altermime/
drwxr-xr-x 2 zimbra zimbra 4096 Jun 7 2009 dspam/
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4096 Jun 24 2008 clamav/

Our is less than 10GB however we don't use amavisd, spam or clamav, and we don't spool postfix mail locally either.

Doing a new installation.

What is /opt/zimbra/data used for?

How much disk space does it need?

I read the documentation and the only directories I was worrying about are;

/opt/zimbra/store, db, index and log,

Thanks

Brad

[Klug]

It also contains the LDAP databases (if your ZCS is uptodate and you have the LDAP service setup), mailboxd temporary folder (imap cache) and quite every temporary/spool folders for the MTA (amavis, altermime, cbpolicyd, etc).

drwxr-xr-x  2 zimbra  zimbra  4096 Jul 19 22:12 altermime
drwxrwxr-x  8 zimbra  zimbra  4096 Aug 22 10:23 amavisd
drwxr-xr-x  3 zimbra  zimbra  4096 Nov 22  2011 cbpolicyd
drwxr-xr-x  3 zimbra  zimbra  4096 Mar 31  2008 clamav
drwxr-xr-x  2 zimbra  zimbra  4096 Jul 19 22:12 dspam
drwxr-xr-x  6 zimbra  zimbra  4096 Jul 19 22:12 ldap
drwxr-xr-x  3 zimbra  zimbra  4096 Jul 31  2011 mailboxd
drwxr-xr-x  4 postfix zimbra  4096 Jul 31  2011 postfix
drwxrwxrwt 12 zimbra  zimbra 53248 Aug 26 17:28 tmp

Space needed depends on the services you have on your ZCS server and the overall setup (incoming mails, number of users, IMAP access, etc).