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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Another CNews Question
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.004307.6576@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 00:43:07 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.170213.26759@mccc.edu>
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <1991Mar8.170213.26759@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>I record the output of "df -t" every night just before I run expire.  Is
>it reasonable to expect that if I run "df -t" immediately after the
>expire, the difference in the number of inodes will equal the number of
>articles expired?

I find that for about the same price of admission, "df -iv" is more
informative than "df -t".
I should think that your proposition is about right. Article expired = inode
reclaimed.

>I'm trying to get a handle on whether or not CNews is throwing away any
>incoming news.  (I have "rnews.stall" in /usr/lib/news.)

Why do you suspect that you're losing articles?

 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr@jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341