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In article <1gq77qINNmm4@rs6000.bham.ac.uk>, usenet@rs6000.bham.ac.uk (USENET News Service) writes:
> 
> If i run /usr/local/news/bin/expire to expire articles, it runs through
> ok, building a new history.n history file. When it is finished, the new
> history file is copied to the old one, as you'd expect. The problem
> arises when i do a 'df' command on the partition, and i find that
> the space taken up by the two history files has not been reclaimed by
> the system, consequently leaving me with little disk space. By shutting
> down and restarting the server, the space becomes available. 

This isn't necessarily an AIX problem.  As with all Un*x's that I've used,
if process A has a file open and that file is then deleted by process B,
the file for all future process has been removed from the directory, but the 
actual space is not reclaimed for the file system until process A has terminated
and released that inode.

What you need to look for is old running processes that may be utilizing that
old history file and kill them.  The reason the space is being reclaimed when
you shutdown the server is because any of the processes holding open the file
are killed when the server is restarted.

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jerry
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