Arora, Sumit wrote:
You are right Joost, 4KB will be the block size...
But my question is who is taking this disk space, because email is deleted
already.
Is this any log or what.... I just have to stop consumption of any kind of disk
space except mail logs.
Please help....
-Sumit Arora
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org]
On Behalf Of J. Roeleveld
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 6:26 PM
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: 4KB of disk space burning on a single email
On Friday 20 November 2009 13:42:58 Arora, Sumit wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm just testing my postfix server for load and disk usage.
I'm using content filter on some another server, and I don't feed the email
back to postfix.
Email data is getting deleted from my postfix server, but I don't know
where 4KB of my disk space gone on every email my postfix server receives.
If anybody have some idea, please tell me.
-Sumit Arora
My guess is that the filesystem has a block-size of 4KB.
A file is stored over a set of blocks of this size. Which means that if a file
is smaller then 4KB, it will still use a 4KB block.
As far as I know, only reiserfs has the "notail"option which will try to stick
multiple smaller files into a single block.
--
Joost
Perhaps tell your mail client to "compact" the trash. That's what I have
to do in Thunderbird, or else the files stay on the server.
Dan Schaefer
Web Developer/Systems Analyst
Performance Administration Corp.
