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In <KATZ.93Jan12105234@carbon.elements.rpal.rockwell.com> katz@rpal.rockwell.com writes:
>The file system is nfs mounted to another partition on the same
>machine.
I do not understand this.  You mean you do this command
	mount foo:/big/partition /usr/spool/news
on the machine named foo?  If so, that's bizarre; don't do that.  Use
symlinks (see next pargraph).  If you are not doing that, then I do not
understand what you are saying.

>  That is, is there a solution short of
>reinstalling inn and specifying a new location for articles at
>installation time.
Sure, symbolic link.  Most news programs chdir to the toplevel of the spool
directory, so the performance hit is one symlink resolution at startup.
	rm -rf /usr/spool/news
	ln -s /big/partition /usr/spool/news
>  Under what circumstances does inn instroduce
>sym links?
If your news spool is on two partitions, and an article is cross-posted
it has to symlink:
	mount /dev/rd0a /usr/spool/news
	mount /dev/rd1a /usr/spool/news/comp
now imagine an article posted to news.answers,comp.unix.questions.
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