Patrick, For what it's worth, I have a separate /srv partition for exactly the reasons you outline, and I place the cyrus mailbox data in /srv/cyr. That way, an overfull mail store doesn't kill the entire server (and vice versa, perhaps). I'm using Ubuntu, but I think the principle remains the same.
John On 04/12/14 23:11, Patrick Goetz wrote: > This might seem like a dumb question, but I'm wondering if anyone has > some thoughts on recommended file locations for single server systems; > in particular, what are the cyrus default folder locations? > > I've been using cyrus on Ubuntu/debian systems and am now making a > switch to Arch. The default debian file locations are: > > /var/spool/cyrus: mail, news, sieve > /var/run/cyrus: sockets > /var/lib/cyrus: db files, db, quota, msg, proc > (configdirectory=/var/lib/cyrus) > /var/log/mail.* log files > > although there also appears to be an unused /var/lib/cyrus/user folder > > > The problem with putting actual user mail in /var is that this can > eventually amount to quite a bit of data. Many modern small server > systems are set up with small/fast SSD OS disks and user data (/home) > stored on larger traditional disks. (I set up all my servers like this.) > Since the OS disk is relatively small, I try to avoid placing growing > data stores on it. > > The simple solution would appear to be to place /var on a separate > partition on the larger disks as well, but this has in the past resulted > in boot problems because /var doesn't get mounted quickly enough. (And > yes, understood this problem has finally been solved by systemd.) > > So my solution has been to make the defaultpartition = /home/cyrus/mail > > leaving the debian defaults in place otherwise. > > > The Arch package maintainer has set up everything under /var/imap: > > [root@ibis imap]# pwd > /var/imap > [root@ibis imap]# ls > db log msg proc quota sieve socket user > > > I can live with this, but it doesn't seem ideal, either. For example, > what is the configdirectory, given this directory structure? > > Hence my question. The Arch philosophy is to stick as closely to > upstream as possible, so it would be useful to know what that is. > > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > To Unsubscribe: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus >
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