Re: How to reclaim space in news.dat?
Kim Bergman (bergy1@telusplanet.net)
Wed, 25 Dec 1996 08:08:36 -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. It will shrink news.dat. It also resets the expiry dates so
you will notice that expire -o will do nothing until the keepdays limit is reached
again.
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Regards,
Kim Bergman