My site's database grew too large that it can't even pack itself anymore. When I do pack it, it says that there's insufficient space.
I've tried deleting some files in the server but to no avail - the database itself just takes the whole disk space.
How would I continue on from this point? The website is basically stuck since it can't add more data since the disk space is full.
The server is on Ubuntu 11.10
After a few weeks, I returned to this problem and I have finally fixed it.
It is similar to the idea of @MartijnPieters, but I approached the problem differently.
My zope instance was in /dev/sda6
, and that filesystem is full. I just increased the size from 27G to 60G and THEN I packed my Data.fs
file.
I used GParted on my machine but it's because /dev/sda6 is a native linux filesystem. If you're running LVMs, you might need to use resize2fs.