Super excited to say this one would appear to be in the books. I stopped the services and backed up the partition. I didn’t bother trying to shrink it, just blew it away and recreated the home partition and as I write this, xfsrestore is chugging along restoring files. I have already grown the root from 75 GB to 2.1 TB. This seems to have fixed all the issues the web server was exhibiting. Funny how having enough space helps with that.
So just to be clear, the restore takes (in my particular case) 5 times as long as the backup. I don’t think I realized that was the case otherwise I would have probably just picked up a SATA single that I could have internalized instead of the USB 2.0 external drive.
When I rebooted after it was done, I didn’t get to see what happened but I believe it error-checked the drive and rebooted again. My heart skipped a few beats but by that point, I was watching the console and everything was coming up properly.
Initial tests indicate everything is back to the way it was. Email is dropping back into the home/vmail structure. We have oodles of room on the root and home. Life is good today.
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