Safe way to Erase Store Folder?

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Javoherrera
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Safe way to Erase Store Folder?

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Hi, I have the following issue

I have installed zimbra Release 7.2.0_GA_2669.UBUNTU10_64 UBUNTU10_64 FOSS edition. Delete an account from the GUI that weighed around 70 GB, deleting it did not free up the space inside the server; I did a search and found the folder that had these emails (opt / zimbra / store / 0/1322) but I don't know if I can simply delete the folder without damaging the system.

Is there a safe way to delete the folder? Any Suggestion?

Thanks & Regards,

sorry for my english
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The major problem you have is that your version of ZCS is very old and has bugs a vulnerabilities that mean it could be hacked. I'd suggest you get yourself onto the most recent version of ZCS as soon as possible.
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Re: Safe way to Erase Store Folder?

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phoenix wrote:The major problem you have is that your version of ZCS is very old and has bugs a vulnerabilities that mean it could be hacked. I'd suggest you get yourself onto the most recent version of ZCS as soon as possible.
If it is a fairly old version of zimbra, I am already working to build a new server with a more updated version.

the problem is that I no longer have a place to free up space, and those 70 GB will give me time to continue working with the new server. Do you know any method to free up that space?

greetings and thanks for your answer
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Re: Safe way to Erase Store Folder?

Post by L. Mark Stone »

Zimbra does lazy writes for deleting blobs after deleting a mailbox, so it may take some time before you see an increase in free disk space.

You can always use the built-in tool (zmblobchk) to find “unexpected” blobs on disk (blobs on disk that aren’t referenced in MySQL) and delete them.

Hope that helps,
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Re: Safe way to Erase Store Folder?

Post by arsha »

I am also facing the same problem.Is there any way to safe removal of files in this folder(/opt/zimbra/store).The disk space is contiuously getting exhausted
--> 4.3G db
--> 3.5G index
--> 275G store
--> 77M zmstat
these are the high usage folder.Please guide me as I am new to zimbra. Also Can you please suggest some ways to free space in server
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