Re: And the error comes from ...

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:31:44PM -0400, Mihai Gheorghiu wrote:
> Thanks, everybody.
> It looks like my /var partition is 91% full. The server came pre-configured,
> while the /usr partition is used only 50%, and it won't grow. Can someone,
> please, recommend me a (safe :-) Linux utility that can reallocate disk
> space between partitions - if it exists?

I don't think that's a good idea.

You could link your data area into /usr/local.  Here's how.

1.    Shut down your database.
2.    cp -Rp /var/path/to/data/area /usr/local/new/data/area
3.    rm -r /var/path/to/data/area
4.    ln -s /usr/local/new/data/area /var/path/to/data/area

Now you should be able to start up as though everything is the same.

Alternatively, you could just reconfigure postgres to think that it
lives in a different data area.  That's more standard, but it might
break some scripts you have or something.

A

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