Looks like you're out of disk space on: /dev/sda2 ext3 9.9G 9.5G 0 100% /var is this where your database resides? Phoenix Kiula wrote: > I am getting this message when I start the DB: > > > psql: FATAL: could not access status of transaction 0 > DETAIL: Could not write to file "pg_subtrans/01F8" at offset 221184: > No space left on device. > > > What is this about and how do I solve this? A "df -h" on my system shows this: > > > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda5 ext3 9.9G 2.5G 6.9G 27% / > /dev/sda1 ext3 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot > none tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda7 ext3 197G 17G 171G 9% /home > /dev/sda8 ext3 1012M 34M 927M 4% /tmp > /dev/sda3 ext3 9.9G 4.4G 5.0G 47% /usr > /dev/sda2 ext3 9.9G 9.5G 0 100% /var > /tmp none 1012M 34M 927M 4% /var/tmp > > > Please help! > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly