Re: no space left on device

From: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "Aurangzeb M(dot) Agha" <ama-list(at)mltp(dot)com>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: no space left on device
Date: 2004-01-09 23:46:11
Message-ID: 3FFF3D43.6030201@paradise.net.nz
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I would suspect some *other* service is using the 4G for transient
storage every now and again, and it just so happens that Pg is getting
tripped up.

What else does this machine run ?

regards

Mark

Nigel J. Andrews wrote:

>On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Aurangzeb M. Agha wrote:
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>>Here's the output of "df -m":
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>>[postgres - DB]$ df -m .
>>Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>- 63328 55308 4803 93% /
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>But your du, below, of the postgres data directory shows 53MB in use. That's an
>order of magnitude smaller than the 55GB the above appears to be saying is used
>in the db.
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