On Thursday 12 August 2004 23:21, Danny Sauer wrote:
Randall wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] KMail question' on Wed, Aug 11 at 20:14:
[... comparing size of maildir to mbox...]
...2001: %39 ...2002: %23 ...2003: %34 ...4004: %18
_That_'s why I prefer mbox to maildir!
Testing on my 6062 message inbox (a good mix of short messages and some long ones with:
dsauer@danny-pc:~> df /tmp Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 116154428 53784568 62369860 47% / dsauer@danny-pc:~> grep hda2 /etc/mtab /dev/hda2 / reiserfs rw 0 0 dsauer@danny-pc:~> file /tmp/mbox /tmp/maildir/ /tmp/mbox: ISO-8859 mail text, with very long lines /tmp/maildir/: directory dsauer@danny-pc:~> du -hs /tmp/mbox /tmp/maildir/ 114M /tmp/mbox 127M /tmp/maildir/ dsauer@danny-pc:~> rm -r /tmp/maildir && df /tmp Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 116154428 53663144 62491284 47% / dsauer@danny-pc:~> echo '53784568-53663144' | bc 121424 dsauer@danny-pc:~> echo '(53784568-53663144)/1024' | bc 118 dsauer@danny-pc:~> rm /tmp/mbox && df /tmp Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 116154428 53546432 62607996 47% / dsauer@danny-pc:~> echo '(53663144-53546432)/1024' | bc 113
So, using Reiser, the maildir actualy only took up ~5MB more space, or about 4%.
Did the maildir include index files, or was it just the mails?