Re: How to reclaim space in news.dat?

Pat Shanahan (pat@iquest.net)
Wed, 25 Dec 1996 13:12:36 -0500

FROM: jbang@image.dk (Jens Bang)
DATE: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 03:33:57 +0100
IN NEWSGROUP: list.yarn
SUBJECT: How to reclaim space in news.dat?

.. 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.

"rebuild -s" will rebuild your spool & history file and reclaim the
unused database space. But, it also resets the expire date on ALL the
remaining messages.

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