🚀 go-pugleaf

Problem:

Being of low and fluctuating free disk space,  I have my expires set to
ridiculously small values (default 2 days, 1 for busy groups).  However,
even though I have put a little question `Do you wish to expire' just before
running KA9Q, I sometimes leave it until too late, and don't have enough
space for EXPIRE.  Hence when I run expire I get disk errors :(  These then
require a re-index.  Often, magically, the successfully expired other groups
have created enough free disk space so that the others can be cleaned up.

Proposal:

Firstly, make expire check for free disk space for each newsgroup.  If there
is unsufficient, then warn and skip the newsgroup.

Secondly, instead of expiring on order of ACTIVE (or whatever), expire in
order of increasing disk usage, thus increasing the chances of there being
enough disk space for the larger groups to be dealt with.

imho, this is merely a smop... :)

.splitbung
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