Re: Reclaimbing space in news.dat

From: Steve Coletti (bigsteve@dorsai.org)
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:02:48 -0500

Just one thing to remember when using rebuild, all the active messages have
their dates reset to the current date. In other words, anything that would
have expired between the day you ran rebuild and the day that is the number
of days you have set for retention for that newsgroup will stay around to
that day.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Clifford <colorado@coprolite.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <yarn-list@lists.Colorado.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: Reclaimbing space in news.dat




> 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
>
>