Re: Reclaimbing space in news.dat

From: Alan Clifford (colorado@coprolite.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:13:13 +0000

steve@sawczyn.com (Steven M. Sawczyn) wrote:

>
>In article <+WnR4cGUbREB092yn@gate.net>,
>jstanley@gate.net (John A. Stanley) wrote:
>>You can shrink the news.dat file by running:
>>
>>rebuild -s
>
>
>Wow, what a difference that made! I guess I paid too much attention to
>the warning which stated not to run rebuild unless something was really
>wrong. Nothing was really wrong, but my hard drive was getting fuller
>and fuller.
>
>Again, thanks.
>
>Steve
>

Well I just had to try it. It shrank from nearly 12Mb to just under
4Mb.

Alan