[Dovecot] mdbox and filesystem quota

[Timo Sirainen]

On 18.3.2012, at 23.00, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:

> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox
> 
> "Expunging a message only decreases the message's refcount. The space is later 
> freed in "purge" step. This is typically done in a nightly cronjob when 
> there's less disk I/O activity. "
> 
> What happens if there is filesystem hard quota that is exceeded? Will dovecot 
> allow to delete mails to free space without a need to wait for cronjob to do 
> the purge?

No. Also the purging itself won't work, because it needs to write new data first before it can delete old data. Don't run out of disk space!