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Re: disk space / where did it go



On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:36:21PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Check for open files - Unix doesn't actually reclaim the disk space used
> by an unlinked file until no programs have it open. Something like lsof
> or fuser may help you track this kind of thing down.

Thanks!!  After reading what you wrote above, I restarted postgres and
now it is reporting that only 41 megs is being used.  That is much more
reasonable.  For some reason I was thinking that it would sync up
nightly,

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Jason Stechschulte
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