Re: disk filling up

Brandon Shalton wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My hard disk is filling up in the /base  directory  to where it has
> consumed all 200gig of that drive.
>
> All the posts that i see keep saying move to a bigger drive, but at
> some point a bigger drive would just get consumed.
>
> How can i keep the disk from filling up other than get like a half TB
> setup just to hold the ./base/*  folder
>

Two things come to mind:

- Vacuum as already mentioned by others.
- Temporary sort files from queries needing to sort massive amounts of data.

But you need to help us out by supplying more info...

Cheers

Mark