[Pan-users] Re: Feature request

[Duncan]

Brad Sims posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
below,  on Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:33:18 -0600:

> On Sunday 25 January 2004 4:05 pm, Roman Möller wrote:
>> Thats really funny. I configured my system to use some 120 Gigs for that.
>> So, if you you cannot spare some Gigs for the Job, don't do it.
> 
> Wow good for you, now piss off.
> 
> Hrm, article cache settings doesn't effect it... am I missing something
> glaringly obvious?

Currently, I have my PAN cache set for 4 gig, but am running it in its own
8 gig partition.  (I've been running a dedicated news partition since b4
I switched from MSWormOS.)  That partition is mounted as /mnt/x/news, and
what would be the ~/.pan dir is really a symlink to /mnt/x/news.  (Of
course, I could just mount it as /home/<username>/.pan, instead of using
the symlink, but I prefer having it out where I can see it instead of as a
hidden dir.)

There are a couple things to note about PAN's disk space usage.

First, the cache manages just that, ~/.pan/data/messages/cache.  It
doesn't manage the group tracking and configuration files.  More to the
point, it doesn't manage (or at least I don't /believe/ this counts, but I
could be wrong) the folders, pan.sent, pan.sendlater, and any saved
folders you've created and populated with saved messages.  Thus, if you
are /that/ short on space, that it is really counting, ensure you don't
have an overly huge sent messages folder, and check how much stuff you
have saved in custom folders as well.

Second, I've seen PAN occasionally lose track of some of its messages,
likely due to a crash or something,  Anyway, if this has happened, if you
look at the cache or message folder files in your actual file system, you
will see some dated perhaps way older than anything PAN shows you in its
corresponding folders. or cache.  These can be deleted, as all they are
doing is taking up space.  I know of no way to get PAN to see them again,
tho I believe there's a request in to have PAN associate itself with msg
files and be able to open them from the command line, it just hasn't
happened, yet.  Thus, they aren't really retrievable by PAN anyway, even
if you DID want to save them, tho it's possible something else could
auto-load them, and it's always possible to load them into a text editor,
and hand-decode any attachments, if need be, with the appropriate
stand-alone decoders.

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