Re: Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Erik Jones
Subject Re: Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?
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Msg-id 44C91390.7030206@myemma.com
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In response to Re: Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
Responses Re: Disk is full, what's cool to get rid of?  (Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>)
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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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