Disk space usage with mdbox

Alexandros Soumplis soumplis at ekt.gr
Fri Apr 3 20:04:02 UTC 2015


Nobody any suggestions ?


On 02/04/15 10:09, Alexandros Soumplis wrote:
> Yes I have done it, it is the third command I have run, without any 
> change.
>
> a.
>
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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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