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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.news.b
Subject: Disappearing disk space
Message-ID: <144@maynard.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 09:06:26 EDT
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A few weeks ago I posted a message (to net.unix-wizards only)
describing a problem with mysteriously disappearing and reappearing
disk space on my VENIX (V7 port) system.  I got a few responses that
were helpful in eliminating possibilities, but none that explained the
problem.

Well, it just happened again...  8,000 blocks just *zap* disappeared
without a trace.  This time I discovered that deleting my news history
file (which claimed to be only about 32K bytes long) freed up the
space!  Of course, now that the file is gone I have no evidence to sift
through.  Next time it happens I'll know where to look (but it happens
only about once or twice a month).

Has anyone else ever seen the history file do this kind of thing?
I am running 2.10.2 news under VENIX/86 (a fairly vanilla V7 port).

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