LDAP DB is huge (80Gig)

[Mechanix]

Hi,

today I´ve noticed that the ldap DB is about 80Gig but I can´t figure out how it could grow like that because I have only about 20 Mailboxes. This is a huge problem when rsync-ing the Zimbra LXC container as it takes about 30 minutes tu copy the db file.
Any hints are highly appreciated. Thank you.

ZCS 8.7

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/opt/zimbra/data/ldap/mdb/db# du -c -h data.mdb
81G     data.mdb
81G     total

[DualBoot]

This is just an allocation, this is not the real size.

[Mechanix]

Thank you for your reply. But shouldn´t

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du -c -h

give me the actual size?

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/data/ldap/mdb/db$ ls -lskh
total 81G
 81G -rw------- 1 zimbra zimbra  80G Sep 27 09:30 data.mdb
8.0K -rw------- 1 zimbra zimbra 8.0K Sep 27 09:34 lock.mdb

[phoenix]

This is an old 'problem' that you could have answered yourself by searching and, as already mentioned, it's an allocated space not the used space: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8514&p=155935&hili ... gb#p155935

[brick__]

Hello Mechanix,

Here's a link to zimbra documentation.
You'll find a wikipedia link in there to what a sparse file is and how to actually detect it.

[Mechanix]

Thank you all for your replies.