Grep size of email accounts

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Grep size of email accounts

fedora - qmail

bicycling

10:19 am on May 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi,i onced used a command line to show the list of email accounts which used the most disk space...that was on a redhat/sendmail setup . i lost the command line query...but i know grep command is involved.

now i have a qmail/fedora setup - mind if anyone could give me the command line to show which accounts are taking up the most space.cause my server is running low on space.

jamie

12:56 pm on Jun 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

hi bicycling,

list the mail folder (where your inboxes are kept) pipe to awk which prints only the 5th column (which on my system is the size of each mailbox) then pipe to sort, which sorts by size

ls -l /var/mail/ Ś awk '{print $5}' Ś sort

hth

(you'll have to replace the Ś with proper pipes)

mcavic

12:40 am on Jun 3, 2007 (gmt 0)

Try this to see the username also:
ls -lL /var/mail Ś awk '{print $5, $9}' Ś sort -n

The -L is in case your /var/mail is a symlink, and the -n does a numerical sort rather than an ascii sort.