Re: debian 3 Maildirs a weird size (4.0 K) ??
Thanks Stefan! That is exactly what I was looking for.
Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net> wrote in message news:<2x9UJ-Ls-27@gated-at.bofh.it>...
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:59:55AM -0700, Jim wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to backup my Maildir in debian (using exim & courier-imap)
> > but looking at the actual Maildir in the home directory (specified in
> > exim for it to be there) it's size is 4.0 K for the whole directory,
> > and inside it I can see every folder I have in that account but they
> > are all 4.0 K even though the account as a few hundred Megs of email
> > accumulated over time.
> >
> > Any ideas then where the actual directory is that holds my email so I
> > can back it up? Any help appreciated.
>
> Your mail directories ARE 4k. Almost all folders are. (Very small disks
> can have 1.0k folders.) Directories store names only.
>
> Example:
>
> ~ %% ls -ld / /dev /usr/share/doc ~
> drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 1.0k Nov 5 2003 /
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 21k Aug 25 06:27 /dev
> drwxr-xr-x 173 stefan stefan 16k Aug 25 10:27 /home/stefan
> drwxr-xr-x 1076 root root 24k Aug 23 10:32 /usr/share/doc
> ~ %% du -s /usr/share/doc
> 447M /usr/share/doc
>
> Du seems to be what you want.
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