> On 22/01/2021 20:29 Ron Garret <r...@flownet.com> wrote: > > > On Jan 22, 2021, at 10:05 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > > > On 22 Jan 2021, at 09:07, Ron Garret (gmail) <ron.gar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jan 22, 2021, at 8:02 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On 21 Jan 2021, at 18:08, MRob <mro...@insiberia.net> wrote: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> I just found user who has single folder (standard maildir format) that > >>>> filled with over 8mil files and 800GB in the /tmp subdirectory of that > >>>> folder: > >>> > >>> Are they real files or hard links? > >> > >> How would you distinguish a hard link from a “real file”? > > > > ls -l will show the number of hard links to a file in the first column > > after the permissions (or it showed the number off files (including . and > > ..) inside a directory if it's a directory entry). > > Ah, I misinterpreted the question then. You meant (I presume) “Are they 8 > million distinct files, or 8 million hard links to a (much) smaller number of > actual underlying inodes.” > > So then my next question is (and I’m not intending to challenge you here, I’m > just trying to get a better understanding of how dovecot works under the > hood): where would these hard links come from? What does dovecot use hard > links for? > > rg
There should not be any files under /tmp normally. If there are, you can look at what they are, and decide whether to rm them or move them under /new. Maildir delivery says that you first write the file under /tmp and then link-unlink the file into /new. Aki
