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From: Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de>
Subject: disk full <-> Gnus fetching mail
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:30:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3is2qxnik.fsf@pdrechsler.de> (raw)

Hi,

which files can I delete without running into too much trouble
after running into one of those `end of file during parsing
errors'?

Using the agent, my candidates are:

~/News/agent/nnimap/.agent*
~/News/agent/nnimap/.overview*
~/.newsrc*

Background: Gnus is always active (fetching Mails/NG every 10-30
min). If I fill the rest of the free space on my HD with data
(the command `df' on unix will show 0) during that time Gnus will
screw up one of the files above. Resulting in the
End-of-file-during-parsing-error... somewhere ...

Since my mails are on an IMAP-server I know that nothing is lost
(except for marking). 

Are there further files to include in a potential
clean-up-after-disk-is-full script (it has taken me quite some
time to find ~/News.agent* with filesize *0k*. Deleting it solved
my problem. Finding it took quite a lot of time)?

Thankful for any advice/pointers

Patrick
-- 
I never used a logarithm in my life, and could not undertake to
extract the square root of four without misgivings.
	(Georg Bernhard Shaw)


             reply	other threads:[~2005-04-13 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-13 23:30 Patrick Drechsler [this message]
2005-04-14  0:25 ` Bruno Hertz
2005-04-15  5:53   ` Patrick Drechsler

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