problems with quota files

Michael Menge michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Feb 20 18:34:44 EST 2013


Quoting Robert Mueller <robm at fastmail.fm>:

>
>> I realized that quota shown for users with quota command is much less
>> than real filesystem usage
>
> This is expected.
>
> cyrus quota is sum of size in bytes of each email.
>
> Disk quota used might be much higher because minimum size of a file on
> lots of filesystems is 1 block.
>

In addition:

- with delayed expunge deleted mails will be keept some time
- without metapartition cyrus header, index, cache, squat, expung (only 2.3.x)
   will use some space

Regards

    Michael




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