On 11/22/2006 07:56 AM, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:17:13PM -0800, Rob Tanner wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've got a messages.tdb file that's currently 2.5GB in size. Is there a >> way to trim it down (and preferably keep it trimmed)? Can I simply >> delete it or zero its length by copying /dev/null to it? >> >> I'm need of an answer before I end up with a full file system. >> > > You can stop smbd/nmbd then just delete it. It will > be recreated on startup. Strange that it got so large. > > What Samba version ? > > Jeremy. >
I'm running version 3.0.14a-2. When I looked at the message.tdb file strings, what I primarily saw were printer messages. One thing this particular system does is act as a print server for some 20+ printers that are heavily used by students. -- Rob -- Rob Tanner UNIX Services Manager Linfield College, McMinnville OR
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