From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Daniel Bautista <dnbautista(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: problems installing |
Date: | 2001-11-05 17:50:16 |
Message-ID: | 23011.1004982616@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Daniel Bautista <dnbautista(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I have installed PostgreSQL 7.1.3, but I am having
> problems when I try to do "initdb".
> I have two partitions: one in /, which has the Linux
> SO and is full (no space available), and one in
> /usr/local, which has 16 GB free. When I type
> "./initdb --pgdata=/usr/local/postgres/data" or
> "./initdb -D ..." (in /usr/local/pgsql) the next error
> appears:
> "[...]
> Creating systems views.
> Loading pg_description.
> cat: write error: No space left on device
> cat: write error: No space left on device
How full is "full"? I think that initdb will fail if there's not room
to create a couple-hundred-kilobyte work file in /tmp. You may need to
make /tmp be a symlink to someplace on the volume that has free space.
regards, tom lane
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