From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4921 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Drechsler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: disk full <-> Gnus fetching mail Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:53:52 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Zoology 2, Biocenter, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: References: Reply-To: patrick@pdrechsler.de NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670773 25418 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:26:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:30 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wbz2160.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1113544432 5218 132.187.23.160 (15 Apr 2005 05:53:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 05:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAMFBMVEUAAAB9fX3+/v74+Pjg 4ODIyMi2trYDAwOoqKiSkpKAgIBwcHBYWFj////9/f06OjoBSIhwAAACLklEQVR4nHXQT2jTUBwH 8J8HCeJggidrQMjK0EMuomNVtsHoRuufCHMRpiIoTneZ1IP0oDCd3eilKv47OC2U9iAvRUGQYRw2 PYxJNhhkVWTsl8PoYQgZE+aEIc6XNE1x7/kjvIT3ee/9vi+A/ynw363vZT5Uxq9w4EinbEljDgtn PiuIh06zsNryDPEgBxDjiDGZBzG08txUvRi+wYU4HuPdIzYuXkpxIHyvPdH8DllYRNuAHZwdi45t 3BEVFpYeVBP77DcsnJr/BQqmGLC0NYBuK8vCZALgZ1sfCwaAMLXOpvKgNHKfhUcUDEhuONsAu0DY oAiftgOqZ9toMNhp96j9hxtQfZ5Op/ZQaJqh8UY+KD5YJzskSboLQTUXHA8W9tKg1sNEQ4TpZRe+ d1NvHbgoJAMTaAxYLrg3U1Mr8YgR7NklIwy4v6Jy9fFgePB647A+hFUZLen45eqoPTrRaPPHu8fR 9HRnxLGzsbUAbiFUzr00J8Z6nkbVoQuTAewehggpkylS1Akp5uaCXE0ZOEEIESlRIOWZOtzMwHk6 pZVND0Qt6afarAEpuUMxpOnFmgh61juKzLk7NJ22KyXcPrdJHlZc2Jz1RtqM7J/f2vodIgX45k6Z bipi0jb1egJf6Jgz6SH/Qga+em3JgZDLDHhGjxMDeAUVH7znIwu1cZYLb0PEDGAYFl4QrbYwp5Mf 9fnXHWC1k1ywTtT9j7wM2KKqQ2lVVfuj0d5r9VLwLyuCys8YvyoHAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SyFqmLMio6kKMsCyqJDgfFGOu5Q= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5062 Original-Lines: 56 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5062 Tue Jan 17 17:34:30 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4921 Archived-At: Bruno Hertz wrote on 14 Apr 2005 01:25:27 MET: > Patrick Drechsler 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