Re: database corruption

This thread is a top posting mess. I'll try to rearrange:

Jeff Brenton wrote:
>>>>> REINDEX INDEX testrun_log_pkey;
>>>>>
>>>>> ERROR:  could not write block 1832079 of temporary file: No space left
>>>>> on device
>>>>> HINT:  Perhaps out of disk space?
>>>>>
>>>>> There is currently 14GB free on the disk that postgres is installed on.
>>>>> Does anyone know what I can do to get the db up and running again?
[...]
>>>>> /dev/amrd2s1d    663G    596G     14G    98%    /db
>>>>
>>>> I guess the first question is, does the db have permissions(access) to
>>>> all that space?
>>>
>>> There are no filesystem level content size restrictions that I am aware
>>> of on this system.  The user pgsql should have full access to the
>>> filesystems indicated except for the root filesystem.
>>
>> Inodes?
>
> There are 9 miilion inodes free on /db.  All other partitions have at
> least 1/2 million free.

Assuming that this is ext3 on Linux, it could be space reserved for root.

What do you get if you run the following as root:

dumpe2fs /dev/amrd2s1d | grep 'Reserved block count'

Yours,
Laurenz Albe