Re: About the cache

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Thilo Manske wrote:
> (BTW: Don't mix squid 1 <-> 2 cache dirs)
> > if I delete the cache/log file and restart squid will my cache be rebuild
> > in the same place it is now? will I have any other side effects by doing
> > this?
> IMHO deleting the cache and log files and then rebuilding the structure
> with squid -z is the cleanest solution.
> If you have your cache on (a) seperate partition(s) consider using newfs
> instead of rm ;-)

I found out this the hard way. When moving to Squid 2, I just let it
re-use the own cache directories, and it ran out of disc space eventually.
I did newfs and then did squid -z before restarting squid in the usual
way.

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