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.
>
>
> 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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