Re: disk filling up

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Brandon Shalton wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> My hard disk is filling up in the /base  directory  to where it has
>> consumed all 200gig of that drive.
>>
>> All the posts that i see keep saying move to a bigger drive, but at
>> some point a bigger drive would just get consumed.
>>
>> How can i keep the disk from filling up other than get like a half TB
>> setup just to hold the ./base/*  folder
>>
>
> Two things come to mind:
>
> - Vacuum as already mentioned by others.
> - Temporary sort files from queries needing to sort massive amounts of
> data.
>
> But you need to help us out by supplying more info...
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
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Try fsck-ing and do a df before and after and tell us if that makes a
difference.

Yudhvir