Re: Cannot restart postgres

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:45, Casey Duncan wrote:
> Are there any other partitions on that machine with space available?
> If so you could move some files there from your postgres data dir and
> symlink to them from their original location. At least then you might
> get it to start so you can get a pg_dump to work.

Also, if you're on linux on an ext2/3 partition, try this, as root:

tune2fs -m 0 /dev/hdxn

where x is the drive
and n is the partition number of the drive you have your postgresql
partition on.

Set it back after your done to have your safety net once again.