Thanks,

Dovecot seems to create a lot because of the indexes, but they dissapear with the cron.

-Bert

From: Jeff Ballard <ballard@engr.wisc.edu>

There should be a cron job on the server that deletes those

...

From /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root:

15 3 * * 0 /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind

Looking at /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind:

less /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind

#!/bin/sh

Copyright (c) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

#ident "@(#)nfsfind.sh 1.7 00/07/17 SMI"

Check shared NFS filesystems for .nfs* files that

are more than a week old.

These files are created by NFS clients when an open file

is removed. To preserve some semblance of Unix semantics

the client renames the file to a unique name so that the

file appears to have been removed from the directory, but

is still usable by the process that has the file open.

[snip]

-Jeff

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Jeff Ballard <ballard@engr.wisc.edu> 608-265-5090 Unix Systems Manager, Computer-Aided Engineering Center