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Subj : Max Messages...
To   : Bob Jones
From : Mike Bourne
Date : Tue Aug 12 2003 06:28 pm

 MB> The area currently has 4001 messages (highest message 
 MB> number 27052) consuming 7.446 MB of space on an 80 MB 
 MB> logical drive with 40 MB free.

 BJ> 4K messages times .5K minimum block size is 2Mb.....  I assume your
 BJ> 7.446 Mb is from a directory listing which *hides* the disk space
 BJ> wasted because you are using one file per message.  For 4K messages
 BJ> that's only about 256 bytes per message, so only about 1Mb of
 BJ> additional space....  Ah....  but it isn't 1/2K blocks....  On 80
 BJ> Mb FAT partition, I believe it is 4K or 8K blocks....  At 8K
 BJ> blocks, you will average 4K wasted space per file, times 4K files,
 BJ> which means you are wasting about 16Mb of disk space on that 80 Mb
 BJ> partition....  Squish would not waste that much of the
 BJ> partition.....

It is a 4K allocation unit (I set it up that way on purpose, years ago), and 
most of the messages are pretty close to that.  And there is plenty of space, 
so I'm not really hurting.

 PK> Yup, when it comes to online communications, reliabilty is a pretty
 PK> important factor.

 BJ> Ok....  Use sqconv to renumber each message area after you have
 BJ> made a backup copy of that message area.....  [sqconv is part of
 BJ> the squish package of tools, and can convert from *.msg or squish
 BJ> type message bases to *.msg or squish type message bases.....]

I've seen that in the documentation.  I just wish that it renumbered *.msg 
bases too.  :-)

 MB> I'm often only in town from fairly late Friday night to 
 MB> early Monday morning for weeks at a time, so I don't 
 MB> have time to mess with things much.

 BJ> Ah.....  Now that becomes the issue....

Quite often it is a BIG issue.  Time at home is precious, especially this 
summer with the kids home from college.  There is not that much time left to 
spend with them.

Mike Bourne

--- timEd 1.10.y2k
 * Origin:  A Point at the Edge of Town, Ft Worth TX USA  (1:130/41.3102)

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