Path: utzoo!utgpu!ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca!NDSUVM1!NETNWS-L Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 10:20:17 EST Reply-To: NETNWS-L Netnews List Sender: NETNWS-L Netnews List From: Paul Ribeiro Subject: Re: Adding another article disk X-To: NETNWS-L Netnews List To: UofToronto LAN redistribution References: Message-ID: <90Feb13.123948est.58276@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: list.netnws-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu On Mon, 12 Feb 90 15:06:47 EST Barry Hathaway said: >management wants it) is create a second article disk for holding .ALT, .SOC, >and .REC. That way when people invoke netnews they don't have to see these >"offensive" news groups...but if the know the magic incantation and have >the right execs then presto they can see everything. Is there an easy way >of doing this without wiping out my current article disk and starting over? just move the GroupNum GROUP and GroupNum VLIB to the new disk and change the entry in your NETNEWS GROUPS to the new disk address (and in your CONFIG to re-direct new groups to the new disk) I had to do this several times (i couldn't get one big disk - we now run with 5 disks, 4 public, 1 private) its fun trying to balance the load among them *sigh* /Paul