From: Yudhvir Singh Sidhu <ysidhu@gmail.com>
To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
Cc: Brandon Shalton <brandon@cydataservices.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: disk filling up
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:36:37 +0530
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Brandon Shalton wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> My hard disk is filling up in the /base directory to where it has
>> consumed all 200gig of that drive.
>>
>> All the posts that i see keep saying move to a bigger drive, but at
>> some point a bigger drive would just get consumed.
>>
>> How can i keep the disk from filling up other than get like a half TB
>> setup just to hold the ./base/* folder
>>
>
> Two things come to mind:
>
> - Vacuum as already mentioned by others.
> - Temporary sort files from queries needing to sort massive amounts of
> data.
>
> But you need to help us out by supplying more info...
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
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Try fsck-ing and do a df before and after and tell us if that makes a
difference.
Yudhvir
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