Cyrus Quota vs. du

[Peter A. Friend]

On May 2, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Dana Canfield wrote:

> We've been slowly phasing in mail quotas and I've discovered that  
> the quota usage reported by cyrus doesn't match a du for that same  
> user.  In fact, I can't find any user where the reports *do*  
> match.  Is this a sign of quota corruption, or am I overlooking  
> something about how the quotas work?
>
> Here are some examples to show what I'm checking:
>
> [root at balrog ~]# du -s /var/spool/imap/e/user/efreem
> 1068664 /var/spool/imap/e/user/efreem
> [root at balrog ~]# du -s /var/spool/imap/a/user/austin
> 1178924 /var/spool/imap/a/user/austin
>
> [root at balrog efreem]# cyradm --user cyrus localhost
> localhost.localdomain> lq user.efreem
> STORAGE 904193/2000000 (45.20965%)
> localhost.localdomain>  lq user.austin
> STORAGE 703056/1000000 (70.3056%)

The du utility reports usage in terms of blocks, not bytes. This is a  
major drawback of maildir type systems, they can have nasty partial  
block overheads.

Peter