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 > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster --
