Re: Cannot restart postgres

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: Casey Duncan <casey(at)pandora(dot)com>
Cc: elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cannot restart postgres
Date: 2006-06-19 22:54:00
Message-ID: 1150757639.26538.126.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:45, Casey Duncan wrote:
> Are there any other partitions on that machine with space available?
> If so you could move some files there from your postgres data dir and
> symlink to them from their original location. At least then you might
> get it to start so you can get a pg_dump to work.

Also, if you're on linux on an ext2/3 partition, try this, as root:

tune2fs -m 0 /dev/hdxn

where x is the drive
and n is the partition number of the drive you have your postgresql
partition on.

Set it back after your done to have your safety net once again.

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