On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 01:20:20 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> You mentioned that you were running out of space on your system. If a lot > of that space is mail messages, I would bet that Maildir is costing you a > lot of it. Each message is taking a multiple of the allocation unit size > (1KB? 4KB?) and a large part of that is likely unused (the tail of the > last unit). Hugh, My primary data device is 1TB. My primary backup device is 50GB Blu-ray. I compress my backup now. My email archives go back twenty five years, and I have no plans to archive any of it. I figured that separate email files would be using up a lot of sectors, but my bandwidth is limited by my Blu-ray discs. My actual backup is a gzipped tar file. Sectors should not be a problem, should they? -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk