At 03:29 PM 1/30/2001 +0100, you wrote: >Hi there, > >I want to make some space on my spools (again) and decided to kick off some >groups that no one reads. I don't want to permanently delete them so I can >quickly undelete them in case a customer requests one of those groups. The >question is: Will tellnews rmgroup be enough to clear out those groups and >get the diskspace back or will I have to use purgegroups in addition? Any >drawbacks on not using purgegroups? Neither rmgroup or purgegroups will recover the space 'unless' you run a tellnews rebuild_piles which I don't recommend as it can take several hours unless you have a fairly small spool? ChrisP.
