On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:36:45PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > Running pg_dump on a FreeBSD 6.1 machine gives me: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/even]# pg_dump -Ft -f ./my_db-2007-5-16.backup -U > user my_db > > /tmp: write failed, filesystem is full > pg_dump: [tar archiver] could not write to tar member (wrote 0, > attempted 86) > > pg_dump: *** aborted because of error > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/even]# df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/aacd0s1g 125G 5.8G 109G 5% /data > /dev/aacd0s1e 484M 86K 445M 0% /tmp > > The database is, when dumped in text format and gzipped, 40 Mb, so I > assume that there is enough space on the /tmp drive to store the temp > files of the pg_dump. > > Is that assumption OK? Can I somehow use another partition to store the > temporaray files without changing my /tmp mount?
tar is what's creating the temp files, not pg_dump. AFAIK it obeys the TEMP environment variable, so changing that should make things good. -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
