> On 20/05/2021 13:16 Eirik Rye <r...@trojka.no> wrote:
> 
>  
> > On 10 May 2021, at 11:52, Timo Sirainen <t...@sirainen.com> wrote:
> > 
> > S= is the "physical size", W= is the "virtual size". quota=count / vsize 
> > calculations should be using the W= value, not the S= value.
> 
> 
> I renamed all messages containing S= and W= values in a user's mailbox 
> (Trash) which had the incorrect quota calculation, stripping these from the 
> filenames to ensure they were not causing incorrect calculations.
> 
> Then, I deleted every single dovecot* file in the user's mailbox (all indexes 
> and control files, including dovecot-uidlist):
> 
>   root@server:~# find /mail/<username>/Maildir/ -type f -name 'dovecot*' 
> -delete
> 
> Running `doveadm mailbox status -u <username> 'vsize' 'Trash'` -still-, even 
> after all this, returns a vsize calculation that is off by a factor of about 
> two:
> 
> root@server:~# du -bs /mail/<username>/Maildir/.Trash
> 7200481589      /mail/<username>/Maildir/.Trash
> root@server:~# doveadm mailbox status -u <username> 'vsize' 'Trash'
> Trash vsize=14584428026
> 
> (The user was not logged in during any of this testing)
> 
> I am at a bit of a loss at what is causing this issue now. I have tested 
> against 2.3.13 and 2.3.14 now. Any chance I may have hit a bug in these 
> versions?
> 
> It is worth mentioning that I have only encountered a small handful of users 
> (out of about 100k) where the quota calculation is wildly incorrect. For the 
> most part it appears to be right.
> 
> - Eirik

Hi!

Quota will count only virtual size of mails (and not directories) and that will 
likely never match with du -bs, which counts for things more than just the mail 
contents.

Aki

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