Re: [Dovecot] rule of thumb for indexing overhead

WJCarpenter wrote:

Thanks, but I think you misunderstood my question. I'm trying to figure out how much disk space I'll actually need for holding the index files. In other words, I'm looking for a planning factor to figure out how much disk to buy when I got to Fry's :-).

Using my own maildir as an example here:

root#fam [(/var/gopostal/maildirs/copyleft.no/vegarn)] find . | wc -l 54365 root#fam [(/var/gopostal/maildirs/copyleft.no/vegarn)] du -sh . 902M . root#fam [(/var/gopostal/maildirs/copyleft.no/vegarn)] find . -name "dovecot.*" | xargs du -sch | grep total 41M total

Just under a 1:20 ratio in my case.

Cheers,

Vegar Nilsen

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