Question Relocation of mails on different hard disk for Linux

[carodp]

Server operating system version

Linux

Plesk version and microupdate number

Version 18.0.63 Update #4

Hello,

I recently had a "Insufficient storag" problem due to mail.
So I added a volume on my ovh instance Créer et configurer un disque supplementaire sur une instance
I mounted it on my Plesk linux
I followed the tutorial https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/...ault-location-of-mailboxes-in-Plesk-for-Linux

However in spite of all that I still have a problem of storage like mail are still assigned to the old main hard disk and not the new one I mounted.
But I can see in the stats of usage that mail are stored on the new one ! So it is really like the old one has a kind of priority and the new one is not really used.

I am sorry this is not my domain of expertise.

What should i do so my new disk mounted o /mnt/disk handles everything for the mail ?


Thanks

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

Hey, @carodp. Could you please clarify what do you mean by mail are still assigned to the old main hard disk - are the new mailboxes created on the server assigned to the old location or emails you send/receive for particular mailboxes are still stored at the old location? Also, have you moved/removed the mail data from the old directory? Lastly, if you could provide code-snippets/screenshots of the configuration files (/etc/psa/psa.conf; /etc/dovecot/conf.d/example-custom_dir.conf; popuser's dorectory from /etc/passwd). Lastly, please confirm the exact Linux distribution/version of your server. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

 

[carodp]

It seems that even after doing the full tutorial (https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/...ault-location-of-mailboxes-in-Plesk-for-Linux), and in spite of my new hard disk being only 30% occupied (because of the cp of the tutorial - I copied from the old to the new directory), I still have the error message "insufficient storage" like it is only using the old directory on the main hard disk and not the new one.

Yes I didn't delete yet the old location because I wanted to be sure that my "migration" was working.
I did rename it however one hour ago so I don't know if that will change anything, and I created a symlink to the new directory (on the new disk).
So I looks like :
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root mailnames -> /mnt/disk/mailnames
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root mailnames_backup(the new name of old directory)
drwxr-xr-x 4 popuser popuser popuser

/mnt/disk/ is the new directory to the new hard disk.

I really followed to the letter the tutorial I linked in first message. I just added the symlink.

In /etc/psa/psa.conf :
QMAIL_ROOT_D /var/qmail
PLESK_MAILNAMES_D /mnt/disk/qmail/mailnames
Do you need more ?

In /etc/dovecot/conf.d/99-mail.conf:
mail_home = /mnt/disk/qmail/mailnames/%Ld/%Ln
mail_location = maildir:/mnt/disk/qmail/mailnames/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir:UTF-8

In popuser /etc/passwd:
popuser:.......service user:/mnt/disk/qmail/popuser:/usr/sbin/nologin

Distribution : Linux Debian 5.10.46-4~bpo10+1 (2021-08-07) x86_64

Thank you very much

 

[carodp]

Sorry error :
So I looks like :
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root mailnames -> /mnt/disk/qmail/mailnames
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root mailnames_backup(the new name of old directory)
drwxr-xr-x 4 popuser popuser popuser


So the old directory is now a symlink to the new directory

I hope this will work but i would like to know if there are better ways

 

[mow]

What exactly is complaining about insufficient storage?
After all, if you haven't removed the old mail spool yet, you haven't gained any space on the root filesystem.