Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:12 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>
>>Yeah - noticed the callout was 600 megs before I deleted it. Is there
>>any way to self limit that or maybe write a script to clear it out once
>>a week or so?
>>
>>
>
>It may well be a sparse file - so nowhere near 600MB on disk. Use "ls
>-s" to show the disk blocks in use.
>
>If your distribution uses a single file db file (ie theres one file per
>db in the directory - maybe plus a .lockfile one) then you can just
>delete them every so often. This definitely reclaims the disk space
>whereas using some form of db tidy such as exim_tidydb may not actually
>return disk space.
>
>Remember they are hints - thats why you can put them on a RAMDISK in the
>first place.
>
> Nigel.
>
>
Yeah - I think I'll nuke it every saturday night.
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