Re: How to reclaim space in news.dat?
Kim Bergman (bergy1@telusplanet.net)
Wed, 25 Dec 1996 14:01:38 -0700
In article <VKJwyIcj1qQb090yn@image.dk>, jbang@image.dk (Jens Bang) wrote:
>
>I know that doing an expire -r or an expire -o will delete messages from my
>news.dat file, but not reclaim the space they took up. How do I reclaim
>this space? My news.dat file is above 90 MB at the moment, and I would LOVE
>to get it down in size.
>
Use rebuild -s to shrink news.dat. This also resets the expiry dates
on all messages so if you have a message due to expire (by age) tomorrow
and then you run rebuild -s, the message expiry date will be reset to
keepdays in the future. I am aware of no other way to shrink news.dat.
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Regards,
Kim Bergman