Disk space usage with mdbox

[Urban Loesch]

Did you "purged" the deleted mails for this user?
On mdbox you must run "doveadm purge -u $USER" to whipe out any as deleted marked mails etc.

Details: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Purge

I use a nightly cronjob wor this.

Regards
Urban

Am 01.04.2015 um 23:26 schrieb Alexandros Soumplis:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using dovecot with mdbox+sis and I notice an ever increasing disk space usage since I converted mailboxes from Maildir to mdboxes. I have checked
> with a user and while it actually uses only 65K, his mdbox files on disk are more than 6G. The backup of his mailbox is just 64K. Any suggestions ?
> 
> Below are some relevant commands:
> 
> [root at mail ~]# doveadm quota get -u test
> Quota name Type    Value Limit                                                          %
> User quota STORAGE 10135 31457280                                                          0
> User quota MESSAGE   186 -                                                          0
> 
> [root at mail ~]# du -k --max-depth=1 /mdboxes/test/
> 220    /mdboxes/test/mailboxes
> 6029348    /mdboxes/test/storage
> 6029592    /mdboxes/test/
> 
> [root at mail ~]# doveadm purge -u test
> [root at mail ~]# du -k --max-depth=1 /mdboxes/test/
> 220    /mdboxes/test/mailboxes
> 6029348    /mdboxes/test/storage
> 6029592    /mdboxes/test/
> 
> [root at mail ~]# doveadm backup -u test  mdbox:/tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/
> [root at mail ~]# du -k --max-depth=1 /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/
> 16    /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/mailboxes
> 65540    /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/storage
> 65568    /tmp/MDBOX_TEMP/
>