Generally, I like to tell a story when I make a post. Today's story is about running out of space on our production mail server. Here is the background. We're running Novell Groupwise on a SLES10, OES2 server serving a small business. There are about 70 mailboxes in the system. We're also highly virtualized, so the server is a virtual machine running as a guest on VMware ESX.
There are two virtual hard drives. The 1st contains the OS, and the 2nd is in a Logical Volume Group. Turns out that was a lucky choice. The 2nd drive was originally provisioned as 110 GB. I knew the drive was getting full, but the last time I checked it had a few GBs free. Yesterday, some urgent system messages were sent to the administrator email address, informing me that the Quick Index couldn't run because the remaining space was 0000 MB. Oops.
