| From: | Ray Stell <stellr(at)cns(dot)vt(dot)edu> |
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| To: | km <km(at)mrna(dot)tn(dot)nic(dot)in> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgresql /var fill |
| Date: | 2006-10-06 13:38:46 |
| Message-ID: | 20061006133846.GB27040@cns.vt.edu |
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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 install dir 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 used space 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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