Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ra!Ra.MsState.Edu!fwp1 From: fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Multi-Filesystem News Spool Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 90 03:32:19 GMT Sender: usenet@ra.MsState.Edu Distribution: news Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: tzu.cc.msstate.edu Well, its finally happened. My 150meg news partition is full and I'm expiring news after only about a week of news...which isn't long enough. Unfortunately, it may be a long time before a new disk to create a larger news partition. In the interim I would like to divy my news out among other filesystems and sym,bolic link them into the normal spool directory. Unfortunately, Bnews 2.11.19 (nearly the latest version yes?) assumes that the news is stored in the same filesystem and makes hard links for cross posted articles and such. Looking at the source to inews.c indicates that simply using symlinks instead of links is not sufficient. Before I put much time into this, has anyone already done these modifications? Is there an option in the localize.sh that I'm missing? I'm running on a Sun 4/490 with SunOS 4.1 getting news via nntp 1.5.10. Any diffs or pointers would be humbly appreciated. Regards, FWP -- -- Frank Peters Internet: fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu Bitnet: FWP1@MsState Phone: (601)325-2942 FAX: (601)325-8921