Re: [courier-users] Command line tool to calculate Maildir size?

Ben Kennedy wrote:
> Kia T. Vang wrote at 5:47 pm (-0500) on 22 6 2005:
>
>>Is there a command line tool available that calculates the current Maildir
>>size?
>
> How about 'du'?
>
> basil ben # du -sh ~zygoat/Maildir
> 291K /home/zygoat/Maildir
> basil ben # du -sb ~zygoat/Maildir
> 107725 /home/zygoat/Maildir
>
> Although offhand I'm not sure why it's reporting 291 kilobytes as
> equalling 107725 bytes here... hmm...

Because -b includes --apparent-size.
Try again with -B1 instead of -b.

Cheers,
Juri


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