Re: Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?

I can't tell you the number of times that little trick has saved my
life.

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 11:32, Jeff Frost wrote:
> You can probably just "tune2fs -m 0 <device name>" to give yourself enough
> space to get out of the jam before you go deleting things. Then you might
> want to vacuum full afterwards.
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Erik Jones wrote:
>
> > Hello, quick question. I've run into an issue with the disk that my
> > development box is on filling up and preventing pretty much any writing
> > (inserts, updates, deletes, etc...) from happening. Other than some piddly
> > text logs the db is pretty much the only thing on the box. So, my question
> > is: what can I do to free space and run a full vacuum? (I was not the one
> > who set up this box and there has been virtually no administration or
> > maintenance on it that I know of...) How about the WAL files in pg_xlog?
> > How critical are they when no data on the system is critical in and of
> > itself? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
> >
> >