Re: No space left on device

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Veera Sivakumar" <vsivakumar(at)rm(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: No space left on device
Date: 2004-02-13 00:29:35
Message-ID: 25208.1076632175@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Veera Sivakumar" <vsivakumar(at)rm(dot)com> writes:
> I am getting following error when I am starting postmaster. I could not be =
> able to start the postmaster.

> PANIC: ZeroFill failed to write /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_xlog/xlogtem=
> p.3452: No space left on device

Seems like you're out of disk space.

If you think you have space left, maybe the postmaster is being started
under a ulimit or disk-quota limit that's too tight?

regards, tom lane

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