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

Awesome. Do I need to reset that to any magic # after the vacuum? I'm
not all that up on filesystem maintenance/tweaking...

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> 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...
>>>
>>>
>>>
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