Comments on: Linux / UNIX find out size of email account or mailbox http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-find-out-size-of-email-mailbox/ Every answer asks a more beautiful question. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:55:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cosmixhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-find-out-size-of-email-mailbox/#comment-36582 Cosmix Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:30:56 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-find-out-size-of-email-mailbox/#comment-36582 Take this route for a "Top 10 largest mail INboxes" : #cd /var/spool/mail #ls -lS | head -10 Take this route for a “Top 10 largest mail INboxes” :

#cd /var/spool/mail
#ls -lS | head -10

]]> By: Ameyahttp://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-find-out-size-of-email-mailbox/#comment-36551 Ameya Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:27:47 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-find-out-size-of-email-mailbox/#comment-36551 Dear Vivek, I am recent.. but a regular visitor to your site. It is very informative and thank you for that. The command you have mentioned here do not actually gives output of the Directory Size. It shows below ouput. root@ameya:~# ls -lL /var/mail | awk '{print $5, $9}' | head -3 4096 4096 4096 I think for the exact results below command will be more useful. root@ameya:~# du -h /var/mail | awk '{print $1, $2}' |more Please lemme know about your views and suggesstions. :Ameya Dear Vivek,

I am recent.. but a regular visitor to your site. It is very informative and thank you for that.

The command you have mentioned here do not actually gives output of the Directory Size. It shows below ouput.

root@ameya:~# ls -lL /var/mail | awk ‘{print $5, $9}’ | head -3

4096
4096
4096

I think for the exact results below command will be more useful.

root@ameya:~# du -h /var/mail | awk ‘{print $1, $2}’ |more

Please lemme know about your views and suggesstions.

:Ameya

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