On Monday 14 February 2005 4:15 pm, Charles J. Boening wrote: > Right. But if you remove the .dir-control file and already have an > existing structure, are the routines smart enough to reuse the space and > skip where the directories are "full"? Or does it just start from > scratch in which you would reuse the directories but it would be > additive to existing structure. So if you have 100 users in the "c" > directory it would add 100 more.
The second. Starts over again from scratch. > > > Charles > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:42 AM > To: vchkpw@inter7.com > Subject: Re: [vchkpw] hashing directories > > On Monday 14 February 2005 1:16 pm, Charles J. Boening wrote: > > If it sees an exiting one will it skip it? > > If it sees an existing .dir_control file then it will use the > information contained therein. Meaning the directories will continue to > be in the sub directorys. > > If you remove the .dir_control file it will automatically create a > .dir_control file with the initial values. meaning no subdirectories > yet. > > Ken Jones > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:36 AM > > To: vchkpw@inter7.com > > Subject: Re: [vchkpw] hashing directories > > > > On Sunday 13 February 2005 9:38 pm, James Whitt wrote: > > > My question is on the removal of empty hashing directories or at > > > least > > > > > > their reuse. While running through our test server which we are > > > setting up to replace our old system, I noticed that when domains > > > are removed, they aren't being replaced when new domains are being > > > created. To get to the point, we now have basically 0 - N > > > directories > > > > > > with no domains in them, and they are completely empty, yet when we > > > create more domains, a new directory will be created when the last > > > one > > > > > > is filled (so if P gets filled, then Q is created even though 0 - N > > > are sitting with no domains in it). Is there an easy way to have it > > > > > > reuse directories that are not hitting the quota anymore instead of > > > potentially having a lot of empty directories? > > > > > > James Whitt > > > > If you remove the ~vpopmail/domains/.dir-control file, then the > > directory hashing will start over at the begining. > > > > Ken Jones
