Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely) - SOLVED

On 23/01/2023 19:00, Steve Fairhead wrote:
> On 22/01/2023 21:06, Steve Fairhead wrote:
>> 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
>
> Jan Stary solved it by asking "Have you tried -H to preserve
> hardlinks?". And no, I hadn't. Wasn't expecting any in a Maildir. I've
> learned something 😉 - wahay!

One more detail for the record: I've just learned that my boss uses a
Mac to deal with mail - everyone else uses Windoze. May be significant,
although I would have thought that Dovecot dealt with the actual
storage... <shrug>

Steve

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