Re: How to reclaim space in news.dat?
Bryan Thorp (a29367@giant.mindlink.net)
Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:27:04 -0800
On Wed, 25 Dec 1996 08:08:36 -0700 in email.yarn, you (bergy1@telusplanet.net (Kim Bergman)) wrote:
>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.
Boy, would I ever love to see an option in rebuild to *NOT* reset
the expiry dates, i.e., just rebuild the spool file. My news.dat
stayed at over 45Mb for 1.5 months until I rebuilt it.
bryan
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