From: Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de>
Subject: Re: disk full <-> Gnus fetching mail
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:53:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oecg37rj.fsf@pdrechsler.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31x9emcg8.fsf@caruso.quasi.local>
Bruno Hertz wrote on 14 Apr 2005 01:25:27 MET:
> Patrick Drechsler <patrick@pdrechsler.de> writes:
>
>> 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)?
>
> First: don't delete .newsrc.eld (!)
Since I have a daily backup I would only lose marks of a few
hours.
> Second: I don't really understand what your purpose is - remove
> possibly corrupted files
Sorry for not being clear: This is what I am after.
> If the former, I frankly don't know how to recognize corrupted
> files other than examine them one by one and see whether they
> look 'good'.
Ok. I will have to find corrupted files manually then.
[...further tipps on saving disk space...]
Thanks for your feedback Bruno!
Cheers
Patrick
--
Computers are good at following instructions,
but not at reading your mind. -- Donald Knuth
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2005-04-13 23:30 Patrick Drechsler
2005-04-14 0:25 ` Bruno Hertz
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