I have installed postgres 8.4.9 database in my fedora core 14 and deployed an application. It was working fine until today before I tried to restart the system. Now I am unable to start the pgsql. When I am trying to start I am getting the following error
FATAL: could not write lock file "postmaster.pid": No space left on device
I googled but was not able to find the solution for this issue.
Could someone please help in solving this issue?
This is the output of df -kh command:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda 9.9G 9.5G 0 100% /
tmpfs 2.0G 88K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
This is not really a programming question so it should be on superuser.
Short answer -
reboot the system.
If the system comes back up, try:
find / -mtime -3 -size +100000 -exec ls -ls {} \; | sort -n
The largest newest files will be at the bottom of the list. If you can see that the file is not part of an app- a data file for example- remove it. You need at least 5% free space on /.
Long term you must add more disk space, like double or triple what you have.