[geeks] Sun file system problem

[Will Mc Donald]

Without knowing what Mail Gear does and how, it's hard to say. This said, the
obvious thing would appear to be just stop whatever Mail-Gear processes are
running. tar up the contents of /var/opt/Mail-Gear somewhere safe. Make a
/cache/Mail-Gear directory and untar your backup there. symlink
/var/opt/Mail-Gear to /cache/Mail-Gear and startup your process again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A. Turner" <mturner at whro.org>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:08 PM
Subject: [geeks] Sun file system problem


> Here is what is going on. Many of the school systems that I help
> support are using a program called mail-gear on sparc 5 machines to serve
> and filter their mail. All of these were installed by the original company
> who made mail-gear, UR-labs. From what I can tell a good bunch of guys.
> Unfortunately they got bought out by Symantec and the support for this
> product dried up. At almost all of these school the person who helped set
> this up years ago has left so I find myself troubleshooting their stopped
> mail for them. These machine are running sun 5.7 (at least that's what I
get
> told when I telnet in)
> The most common issue is that the mail partion gets full. here is an
> example of one of the systems disk partions
>
> # df -k
> Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
> /proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
> /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0    1758462  650659 1055050    39%    /
> fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6    1506815  182793 1263750    13%    /cache
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7     365047  237646   90897    73%    /var/opt/Mail-Gear
> swap                  289160      36  289124     1%    /tmp
>
> I just got through cleaning the /var/opt/Mail-Gear, that is why it
> has 90 megs free. Now what I would like to do. The cache partion hardly
gets
> used at all so I want to move free space to the mail-gear partion (I know
> that is a crude way of saying it but it makes the most sense to me :-) ).
> How do I do that, can I do that? how dangerous is it? Is their any way to
> repartion a drive without wiping out the contents of the partions involved?
> inquiring minds want to know....