🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wednesday, in article <829700843snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
     tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk "Tom Wheeley" wrote:

TW> Problem:
TW> 
TW> Being of low and fluctuating free disk space,  I have my expires set to
..
TW> Proposal:
TW> 
TW> Firstly, make expire check for free disk space for each newsgroup.  If there
TW> is unsufficient, then warn and skip the newsgroup.
TW> 
TW> Secondly, instead of expiring on order of ACTIVE (or whatever), expire in
TW> order of increasing disk usage, thus increasing the chances of there being
TW> enough disk space for the larger groups to be dealt with.

Same comments also apply to SnzPrune.  I've been a bit fearful
of doing anything in this area, because I have the impression that
space reporting is erratic on some combinations of [waves hands].
Not sure if it's BC++ 3.1 run time, which OS, or what.
More detail, anyone?

I guess some kind of cmd line switch would be reasonable.

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

:)

SMoC.  C=Cash.  Big disks are cheap now.  :^)

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John Washington