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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Inews vs. df
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Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 17:41:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 24 17:41:13 1986
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	About the title of this article: around here we have two programs
we use a lot.  Inews runs every night and every morning I run df to see
what the damage was.  Df usually loses. :-)

	It seems to me that a typical scenario when we run out of space on
/usr is that the history file gets trashed and articles get lost.  What
this really means is that expire doesn't find old articles, so they never
get removed.  This makes it even more likely that we will run out of space
again the next day and trash the history file all over again.  The
potential for a vicious cycle should be obvious.

	So, it seems to me that it would probably be a good idea to keep
/usr/lib/news and /usr/spool/news on different file systems.  That way,
news overflowing /usr/spool won't trash /usr/lib/history and start the
cycle all over again.  Comments?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016