Help on quota usage.

[Eric Luyten]

On Fri, February 14, 2014 1:30 pm, mayak wrote:
> On 02/14/2014 12:41 PM, Anant Athavale wrote:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>>
>> for one user, the lq user.xx is showing 1.6 GB, where as actual usage on
>> file system is less than 1 GB.  I want to know, how can get where is the
>> additional quota sitting in /var/spool/imap partition for user xxx.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> --
>> anant athavale. bangalore
> hi anant
>
> try:
>
>
> su - cyrus /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/quota -f
>
>
> to fix quota calculation


The underlying filesystem MAY have compression capabilities, which will most
certainly lead to 'du' returning a lower value than Cyrus 'list quota'.


Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB, mail spool compression factor 1.68