how to reclaim disk space mdbox
Marc
Marc at f1-outsourcing.eu
Mon Mar 15 18:40:27 EET 2021
> When I delete messages in the archive namespace they are copied to the
> deleted items folder in the inbox namespace. This is 34MB increase is
> visible however I expected the archive to go down by 34MB.
>
> Is diskspace reclaimed automatically or do you need to issue an command?
>
> [@ sbin]# du -s -k /home/popusers/testtest /home/mail-archive/testtest
> 135472 /home/popusers/testtest
> 358824 /home/mail-archive/testtest
>
> [@ sbin]# du -s -k /home/popusers/testtest /home/mail-archive/testtest
> 169368 /home/popusers/testtest
> 358824 /home/mail-archive/testtest
>
> PS. I have mdbox_rotate_size = 4 M
>
>
I guess messages are being copied to the other namespace and in the source namespace their refcount is set to 0.
So only a doveadm -v purge -u testtest can release this I guess?
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