Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: How many days do YOU keep news on the system? Message-ID:Date: 6 Dec 88 16:05:54 GMT References: <0820.AA0820@salem1> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: OSU Lines: 14 In-reply-to: brianop@salem1.UUCP's message of 3 Dec 88 02:17:42 GMT brianop@salem1.UUCP (Brian McBee) writes: I'm doing an informal poll to see how much news is kept on all those sites out there. I asked essentially the same question about a year ago, and got lots of interesting responses. Space dedication varies mighty wildly from place to place. Here, we use an entire Eagle drive, and expire weekly on a 6-week basis, on Saturday early AM: [200] [10:43am] tut:/dino0/karl# df /usr/spool/news Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/iop/pdisk03h 386942 326442 60500 84% /usr/spool/news --Karl