Had to restart the import. This time, I tried with a smaller initial disk size (1GB) and extended it dynamically. It did not cause any problems. A different reason might be, that I remounted the volume in between during the last update to deactivate buffer flushing. Maybe a bad combination. Let's see how far it gets this time... -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Extending-the-volume-size-of-the-data-directory-volume-tp5030663p5036767.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general