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Re: You may need more inodes if you store lots of emails locally in maildir format (was: Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD



On Sunday, August 25, 2019 03:25:09 PM David Wright wrote:
>   grep -a '^From ' DIRECTORY/* | less
> 
> where DIRECTORY is wherever you keep your mail, will give an indication
> of how many emails you have stored. Then add your INBOX. My own totals
> around 70,000. My 40GB root filesystem has 2½million inodes (13% used),
> and /home (180GB) has 11½million (3%). So I'm not too apprehensive
> about any future demise of mbox format. (Obviously, running a mailing
> list or news server would be a different matter.)

Thanks for the information, but, darn, I wish you hadn't "inspired" me to 
check how many emails I have stored.  I used a different approach (adding up 
the quantities shown in kmail for each folder) -- looks like I have something 
like 450,000 stored online since about 2005, and some number more stored offline 
before 2005.

Still, I'm probably good on inodes.


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