| From: | Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Gregory S(dot) Williamson" <gsw(at)globexplorer(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: full data disk -- any chance of recovery |
| Date: | 2006-01-04 01:18:50 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.64.0601031715130.8663@discord.dyndns.org |
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Another alternative: most unix filesistems actually set it up so that
> there is still some free space left even if it's reporting 100%. On
> FreeBSD, you can change the amount of reserved space with tunefs -m, but
> you should read the caveats in man tunefs.
Jim, excellent thought! And on Linux at least you can change it with the
filesystem still mounted:
tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1
would probably do the trick.
You might want to set it back after you're done though. :-) Default appears
to be 5 on my machine.
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Jeff Frost, Owner <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>
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