Hi folks,
I was cloning a server with rsync in preparation for a major upgrade
(elderly OpenBSD to 7.2). I noticed that the home partition usage was a
good deal greater on the new machine than the old (as seen by df).
After a lot of analysis, I found that all user folders (and all other
folders/partitions) were near-enough identical on both machines, except
for one - my boss's ;) . After more analysis, I found that it was his
Maildir (using dovecot) that was weird:
- Old machine: 49 GB
- New machine: 188 GB
Figures as measured with du -sk, which I realise is sector-oriented, but
still... And yes, my boss does a *lot* of email.
After yet more testing, I did a recursive copy of the old 49 GB Maildir
to a spare folder on the same home partition on the old machine. This
came up, again, as 188 GB.
(FWIW, Windows via Samba reported "140 GB; size on disk 204 GB" for both
the original "49 GB" Maildir and the 188 GB copy.)
I'm just puzzled, and clearly missing something. Can anyone enlighten me
as to the large (nearly 4*) discrepancy?
Thanks,
Steve
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