Thanks to everyone who responded. In each case I was advised not to delete
the history file. Instead, I was advised by several people to delete the
contents of some lesser accessed newsgroups to quickly regain some badly
needed disk space. I did this and restarted expire. I am happy to report
that I no longer have a space problem on my news disk.
> I am having a space problem on the disk I use for my newsfeed and the
system
> has ground to a halt as far as processing news is concerned. I seem to
be
> grid locked. I have been trying to expire enough articles to reclaim
> sufficient space to return to normal operation. Although the job has
been
> running for quite some time I don't seem to be reclaiming any disk space
> (see below).
>
> news 2067 2058 33.0 15:01:19 ttyp1 52:38.75 expire
/news/lib/news/explist
>
>
> I noticed that my history and history.pag files are both quite large.
>
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 75105425 Apr 4 20:29 history
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 151 Apr 4 11:15 history.dir
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 172146 Apr 4 21:55 history.n
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 146 Apr 4 15:01 history.n.dir
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 0 Apr 4 15:01 history.n.pag
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 19508624 Apr 4 20:29 history.pag
>
>
>
> Can I safely delete either or both of these files to get back some of my
> badly needed disk space? I know the history file contains a list of all
the
> articles currently on my system but can I safely delete it?
Bill Bergman
Westinghouse Communications
(412) 247-6206
wrb_at_wcsmail.com
Received on Tue Apr 08 1997 - 14:11:41 NZST