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In exceptional circumstances you may want to reduce the size of the database files created by the database system. Normally this is not recommended, | In exceptional circumstances you may want to reduce the size of the database files created by the database system. Normally this is not recommended, | ||
- | The main program you should use for decreasing | + | Usually |
If you are very short of free disk space, then you can use the ' | If you are very short of free disk space, then you can use the ' | ||
- | Another way of freeing disk space is to do a [[backup_vpop3# | ||
=====Rebuilding Indexes===== | =====Rebuilding Indexes===== | ||
If you suspect that indexes have become damaged, then you can reindex the database. Again, this requires VPOP3 to be stopped first. | If you suspect that indexes have become damaged, then you can reindex the database. Again, this requires VPOP3 to be stopped first. |