[Gllug] Email programs and mbox format

[Sharon Kimble]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:38:59 +0000
Huw Lynes <huw-l at moving-picture.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:26:03 +0000
> Sharon Kimble <sharon63 at lineone.net> wrote:
> 
> > I am currently using Sylpheed-Claws as my main email program and it
> > is holding a total of 53,682 emails [which I need to keep for
> > research purposes] in mbox format, although the number is contantly
> > growing. The only problem is that although I imported one mbox into
> > SC for each seperate folder, SC then dissected it into lots of
> > little mboxs which is currently taking up about 6.5gigs of space.
> > When there is just one mbox for each folder they only take up about
> > 700mb of space. Quite a difference!
> > 
> 
> Sylpheed doesn't use mbox it uses MH. The difference between theses
> two schemes is, as you've noted, that mh stores each mail as a
> separate file.
> 
> File space differences will be down to the parameters set on your
> filesystem. Since there is a minimum amount of disk space that the
> filesystem can allocate a very large number of very small files can
> use more disk space. You may be able to tune your filesystem do deal
> with this more efficiently.
> 
> What filesystem are you using?
> 
Ext 3 fs. Does this help?

Sharon.
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