Re: Using an SSD with strictatime mount option

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/03/2016 12:36 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 01:53:11PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> >> Joel Roth:
> >>>
> >>> mount -o remount,strictatime /
> >>>
> >>> Fixes it.
> >>
> >> Great! But wouldn't that still be a good idea to switch to Maildir? :)
> > 
> > Yes, it just takes a little work to change over :)
> 
> Perhaps this will help?
> 
> Migrate mbox data as follows:
> 
> mb2md -f /var/mail/mboxfile -d /tmp/imap-tmp
> 
> Adjust file ownership for the new files in /tmp/imap-tmp
> 
> Then change to user to use Maildir and move the files from the temp
> location to the end desired Maildir folder for the user.

All of this worked out well. I used 'mu' (package
maildir-utils) to index the mails. It uses about 1GB to index
6GB of mail.

Thanks to all for the helpful replies.

Joel

> Cheers
> A.
> 

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Joel Roth