Re: [SQU] cache_dir disk space problem

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens-S. Voeckler" <voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de>
To: "Roger" <roger@swedishamerican.org>
Cc: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [SQU] cache_dir disk space problem

> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Roger wrote:
>
> ] If I shutdown squid and do a: echo "" >/cache/swap.state
> ] will squid delete the old cache files itself?
>
> Though it will give Squid an empty cache, the procedure might still lead
> to problems, if you exceed your file system limit, e.g. the first files
> from the old cache are small and the first new files are large.

It will NOT give an empty cache. Squid REBUILDS the swap.state in this
instance.

>
> ] or do I need to manually remove all the cache dirs/files myself and
run
> ] squid -z to properly get rid of the cache files?
>
> Newfs is usually a lot faster than rm -rf, if cache dirs are concerned -
> one of the reasons to put a cache_dir on a disk of its own, so you can
> just say newfs, if you don't like it...
>
> Ciao,
> Dipl.-Ing. Jens-S. Vöckler (voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de)
> Institute for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (RVS)
> University of Hanover, Germany; ++49 511 762 4726
>
>
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