Changing HD's and things go wrong

brgsousa · 08-23-2008, 09:06 AM

Hi,
I run a mail server on a Debian machine. the /var/mail partition is mounted like this:

Code:

/dev/sda3        /var/mail         ext3     defaults,usrquota,grpquota    0      2

And it has 60 gigs of space.

Now i am adding a new HD of 400 gigs to replace this partition. So i copied all the data from the old hd to the new one with:

Code:

cp -Rdp

And then changed the old fstab entry to this new one:

Code:

/dev/hdb1         /var/mail         ext3      defaults,usrquota,grpquota    0       2

Then rebooted.
I don't know much about mail server and quotas. So I supposed I did something wrong coz the squirrel mail isn't not able to log in anymore. I get this message error:

Code:

Error connecting to server IMAP: localhost.
111 : Connection refused

All files were copied fine.
What could have happenned?

Thanks

matthewg42 · 08-23-2008, 09:15 AM

please post the full copy command, and what the mount state was when you did it.

brgsousa · 08-23-2008, 09:17 AM

I used this one:

Code:

cp -Rdp /var/mail /mnt/new_hd

At this moment /var/mail was /dev/sda3 (the old one). And /mnt/new_hd was /dev/hdb1 (the new one).

matthewg42 · 08-23-2008, 09:40 AM

Did you shut down your mail server before copying? (I assume it was re-started on reboot).

Does you mail server software create any logs? Is there anything in the logs?

brgsousa · 08-23-2008, 09:50 AM

All services were down when I copied the files.

Logs:

Code:

fazendeiro:/var/log# tail mail.log
Aug 23 11:47:33 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8539]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:47:33 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8539]: No socket to send to
Aug 23 11:47:33 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8540]: Incoming connection opened
Aug 23 11:47:33 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8540]: connect from 0.0.0.0
Aug 23 11:47:34 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8540]: User `murilofalcao' logged in with mailbox `/dev/null' (0 messages)
Aug 23 11:47:36 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8540]: Session ended for user: murilofalcao
Aug 23 11:47:43 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8544]: Incoming connection opened
Aug 23 11:47:43 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8544]: connect from 0.0.0.0
Aug 23 11:47:44 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8544]: User `hermano' logged in with mailbox `/dev/null' (0 messages)
Aug 23 11:47:45 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8544]: Session ended for user: hermano
fazendeiro:/var/log# tail mail.err
Aug 23 11:38:41 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8341]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:42:43 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8433]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:43:18 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8443]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:43:22 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8445]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:44:02 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8453]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:44:27 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8462]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:45:04 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8487]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:46:26 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8514]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:47:01 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8528]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:47:33 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8539]: unexpected eof on input
fazendeiro:/var/log# date
Sáb Ago 23 11:48:27 BRT 2008
fazendeiro:/var/log# tail mail.warn
Aug 23 11:42:43 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8433]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:43:18 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8443]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:43:22 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8445]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:44:02 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8453]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:44:27 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8462]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:45:04 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8487]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:46:26 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8514]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:47:01 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8528]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:47:33 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8539]: unexpected eof on input
Aug 23 11:48:49 fazendeiro gnu-pop3d[8551]: unexpected eof on input