This thread is a top posting mess. I'll try to rearrange: Jeff Brenton wrote: >>>>> REINDEX INDEX testrun_log_pkey; >>>>> >>>>> ERROR: could not write block 1832079 of temporary file: No space left >>>>> on device >>>>> HINT: Perhaps out of disk space? >>>>> >>>>> There is currently 14GB free on the disk that postgres is installed on. >>>>> Does anyone know what I can do to get the db up and running again? [...] >>>>> /dev/amrd2s1d 663G 596G 14G 98% /db >>>> >>>> I guess the first question is, does the db have permissions(access) to >>>> all that space? >>> >>> There are no filesystem level content size restrictions that I am aware >>> of on this system. The user pgsql should have full access to the >>> filesystems indicated except for the root filesystem. >> >> Inodes? > > There are 9 miilion inodes free on /db. All other partitions have at > least 1/2 million free. Assuming that this is ext3 on Linux, it could be space reserved for root. What do you get if you run the following as root: dumpe2fs /dev/amrd2s1d | grep 'Reserved block count' Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general