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From: aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Inews vs. df
Message-ID: <955@isis.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jul-86 23:51:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 25 23:51:20 1986
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In article <2400@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	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?

Yes, I've set that up here and made /usr/spool/news a symbolic link to the
real location.

Another potential pain is when /usr/spool/uucp fills up with compressed/batched
files to send out, e.g., if csendbatch is running while you're receiving news.
For this reason I've put /usr/spool/uucp on the same filesystem with .../news
(and, also, .../oldnews).

Another approach is to mount a whole (large) file system on /usr/spool.
-- 

Andrew Burt
isis!aburt   or   aburt@udenver.csnet