Disk space usage with mdbox

[Daniel Miller]

Shot in the dark here...haven't tried it myself so no promises. There's 
probably a much better way to do this but sometimes a little "brute 
force" helps.

Theoretical steps:
1.  Stop all mail processes - both SMTP and IMAP.
2.  Use "doveadm sync" to backup the user mailbox, e.g.,
     doveadm backup -u user mdbox:/tmp/usermail
3.  Verify /tmp/usermail looks reasonable
4.  Move the user's mail store somewhere else, e.g. /tmp/useroldmail
5.  Move /tmp/usermail to the user's mailstore
6.  Verify file permissions are set correctly in the mailstore
7.  Start the mail processes...and test.

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Daniel

On 4/3/2015 1:04 PM, Alexandros Soumplis wrote:
> 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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