At 10:08 AM 1/31/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>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.
>
>The above stmt bothers me. As bogus groups and many others like foreign ngs
>gather up valuable space
>on my hds I had previously supposed, and hoped, that a rmgroup would
>eliminate them and the real estate
>they hog.
>
>The stmt by Chris indicates it doesn't!! Do you mean to say that without
>doing a rebuild_piles(which I am
>not sure of since I don't understand "PILES" all that well or if it applies)
>that I can't recover or even reuse
>the wasted space by a non-entity like a removed ng?
Yep.
>What is the suggested strategy? Is there another method? No updates in place
>to remove dead gas?
In the normal course of events, your piles rotate with incoming news every
few days so
the normal action is to do nothing and the space is recovered in a few days.
If you have very long retention for these groups, then presumably you don't
mind loosing a bit ?
If neither of the above applies, so you have medium retention and want
every last bit of it then
yes do a rebuild_piles, but I would generally avoid that unless you deleted
a group that was
taking up a LOT of space, the odd rubbish text group is probably insignificant.
A rebuild_piles basically compresses the spool but takes a long time as it
needs to reprocess
all the existing items and if it goes wrong you can loose items so it's not
worth messing with
unless you have a real problem.
Hope that helps.
chrisP.
>How about the old technique to copy the whole spool over to another
>folder/directory? Will that work?
>Lots of questions here all . Help..
>
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