On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
:"scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
:>> [postgres - DB]$ df -m .
:>> Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
:>> - 63328 55308 4803 93% /
:
:> Do you have root access to it? if so, set the reserved space for root to
:> be 0%, and then try vacuuming. Vacuuming requires some free space, and
:> since you're pretty much out, it isn't gonna be able to complete.
:
:Look again --- it's showing free space in MB not KB. He's got 4.8GB
:free. (Although that might be free-from-root's-point-of-view, rather
:than what an unprivileged user can use ...)
Tom -- You're right here. This account is running on a virtual server, so
the 4.8GB free is not for this user.
Re i-nodes:
[admin - temp]$ df -i .
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
- 8241152 1819166 6421986 23% /
However, I did just get word from the ISP that they had some sort of error
log rotation error which was keeping logs from being deleted off the
machine, taking up a lot of space (for this user account). So the 93% is
aparently not a good representation of the disk usage, as its not for this
specific user account.
Rgs,
Zeb
