[Dovecot] Message size incorrect?

Kenny Dail kend at amigo.net
Wed Jan 17 21:20:03 UTC 2007


>There is quite a discrepancy in the rfc822.size reported by Dovecot
> and the actual space it takes up on my harddisk. 

One thing to keep in mind is that du reports on disk usage not file
sizes. So du will report an answer based on the number of blocks being
used. If you are using 1K blocks for example, messages smaller than 1K
waste disk space. If you have a large number of messages the greater the
discrepancy you might see.
-- 
Kenny Dail <kend at amigo.net>



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