Disk space usage with mdbox

[Alexandros Soumplis]

Yes I have done it, it is the third command I have run, without any change.

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On 02/04/2015 09:53 πμ, Urban Loesch wrote:
> 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/
>>


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