Re: How to reclaim space in news.dat?
Jens Bang (jbang@image.dk)
Sat, 28 Dec 1996 01:50:31 +0100
In article <yYZwyoag9j0H091yn@telusplanet.net>,
bergy1@telusplanet.net (Kim Bergman) 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.
What if I edit the active file, so all groups have the expiry set to 1 day,
do the rebuild and then edit the active file back t what it was before?
Will _all_ my articles be expired tomorrow? Or only the ones that were
expiring anyway?
I don't quite understand the expiry scheme yet, but I'm trying. :-)
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