On 21 Jan 2021, at 18:08, MRob <mro...@insiberia.net> wrote: > Hello, > I just found user who has single folder (standard maildir format) that filled > with over 8mil files and 800GB in the /tmp subdirectory of that folder:
Are they real files or hard links? I've had some issues (in the past) with thousands of links being created to each message, resulting in many millions of "files". I even wrote a script to remove all the linked files leaving only one actual file behind, but I haven't had to do that in quite a while (a year? More?). I don't seem to have the script handy (it's around somewhere), but this is basically what I did: <https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/286780/61289> > I think the dir ran out of inode space so its not ongoing problem. My > question is only can I purge that folder without breaking something more? If > it tries to re-fill again I will try to debug AIUI tmp is temp and can go away, though I'd stop dovecot first just to be extra safe. -- Science is the foot that kicks magic square in the nuts.
