stewart@saturn:~$ time du -sh Maildir
15GÂ Â Â Maildir
real   0m55.749s
user   0m1.008s
sys   0m17.205s
interestingly the tar.bz2 archive of this is only 3.4GB.
It also takes *much* longer to run this on my laptop (over 5 minutes). mmmm… raid.
I’ve also deleted a lot of mailing list mail over the years… i wonder what that would be if i hadn’t….
hmm. I think every couple years I have reset my mailboxes. do you really have that many situations where you need a mail from 15 years ago on your laptop? If so I think you might be the first I’ve found…
This isn’t from 15 years ago though… oldest message is from ~Dec 2000.
hmm that’s a godawfully large maildir still :)