Yes I have done it, it is the third command I have run, without any change. a. On 02/04/2015 09:53 ??, 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/ >>-- Alexandros Soumplis Systems Engineer (M.Sc, RHCE, VCP, SCSA) National Documentation Center / N.H.R.F. Information Systems Department 48, Vas. Constantinou Av. 116 35 Athens, Greece phone: +30 210 7273984 fax: +30 210 7252223 email: soumplis at ekt.gr http://www.ekt.gr
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 ??, 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/ >>> > >
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.
--
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 ??, 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/
>>>>
>>
>>