Emails going to boot volume rather than attached EBS

[Nanz IT]

Hello,

I have a CentOS 7 server running on an amazon EC2 instance. I have mailpiler running fine, I have an EBS volume mounted as /var/piler. In the /var/piler directory mount I have the imap directory,sphinx,stat,store,tmp. When I log onto the gui, the emails are being dropped onto my boot volume rather than the EBS volume connected. How can I have the emails go to the proper volume?

[Nanz IT]

The /dv/xvda1 that the emails are on is only a 10GB drive while the EBS mounted on/var/piler is a 100GB drive so its larger lol.

[eXtremeSHOK]

I would suspect your EBS is mounted as a sub directory inside /var/piler and not as the piler directory inside /var

Have you considered mounting your ebs as /ebs and creating a sym link to /var/piler

[Nanz IT]

No I did not, can you explain how I could do that?

[eXtremeSHOK]

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-using-volumes.html

[Nanz IT]

oh you mean I mounted it as /var/piler as oppose to /piler in the /var directory? I used the documentation to set this up, how would I create a link?

[Nanz IT]

I actually think this is working, I think the gui is displaying the wrong storage. My EBS on /var/piler is growing.

[eXtremeSHOK]

run the following

du -h --max-depth=1 /var/piler

[Nanz IT]

where should I run that? What will be the effect of it? I can confirm my emails are on the EBS volume, will this change the gui to display the proper storage?

[Nanz IT]

I ran the command it displayed the /var/piler directory and showed me the storage being occupied by each directory. /var/piler/store keeps increasing.

[Janos SUTO]

Will you show me df -h output (make sure you format it)?

[Nanz IT]

I am fairly new to this and do apologize, how do I upload a formatted copy of my output?

[Janos SUTO]

See the toolbar at the comment box, eg. H1, H2, ... "Code" is what you need. Also make sure you use the Preveiew button on the right.

[Nanz IT]

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1       10G  2.4G  7.7G  24% /
devtmpfs        903M     0  903M   0% /dev
tmpfs           920M     0  920M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           920M  104M  817M  12% /run
tmpfs           920M     0  920M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/xvdf        99G  2.2G   92G   3% /var/piler

[Janos SUTO]

Thanks. based on the df output, your setup is just fine. I'm not sure how could happen that "When I log onto the gui, the emails are being dropped onto my boot volume"? What evidence do you have to support your claim?

[Nanz IT]

Im sorry, maybe I used the wrong terms. When I log onto the gui, the disk usage is showing me /dev/xvda1 not /dev/xvdf so it is misleading.

[Janos SUTO]

Try this: add the following to config-site.php:

$config['DATA_PARTITION'] = '/var/piler';

[Janos SUTO]

If the above setting doesn't solve your problem, then reopen the issue.

[Nanz IT]

Unfortunately even adding that to the config-site did not help.

[Nanz IT]

please reopen the issue.