On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 16:52 -0400, Aaron Bennett wrote: > If I add up the reported disk space for all of the users on a partition > and compare it to the actual observed size of the spool directory (and > subdirectories), there's quite a large discrepancy. > > For example, adding up all of the usage on one partition comes out to > 23GB, yet observed usage (du -sh spool) comes to 30GB. yes, Cyrus tallies bytes, while the filesystem has a granularity of a block. on average, half a disk block per file (message) is wasted space. for Linux, this will typically be 2 KiB per message. -- Kjetil T. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
