Re: no space left on device

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, scott.marlowe wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Aurangzeb M. Agha wrote:
>
> > Right! Thus my quandry.
> >
> > Re inodes, how can I check this? But why would this be? Is Postgres
> > sucking up inodes just sitting there as a read-only DB?
>
> If you are out of inodes, I seriously doubt it is Postgresql's fault, as
> you seem to be running everything on the root partition here, it could be
> any other process more likely than postgresql is using all the inodes.
> Basically, when you make a lot of small files you can run out of inodes.

And a common culprit is whatever is being used for usenet caching/serving...or
ordinary mail which is just accumulating in /var/mail (or whereever).

> Since postgresql tends to make a few rather large files, it's usually not
> a concern.
>
> df -i shows inode usage.
>
> On linux, you can change the % reserved for root to 1% with tune2fs:
>
> tune2fs -m 1

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Nigel J. Andrews