stewart@saturn:~$ time du -sh Maildir
15G    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….