Re: postgresql /var fill

ls -l /
maybe /data is a symlink?



On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:10:12PM +0530, km wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have installed postgresql(8.1.4) data dir on a partition (/data) which rests on a separate disk from OS disk. The
installdir is default (usr/local/pgsql).  
> Now when i use use pgbench with scaling factor of 1000 it creates a whooping 15 GB database. but i see /var partition
usedspace increases considerably - why is this happening ? i expected more free disk space to be used in /data ! 
> does it mean that the actual database created lies in /var instead of /data ?
> how do i fix it ?
>
> regards,
> KM
>
>
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