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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