On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:25:52PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > The 7.2 and 7,4 directories contain conf files, libraries and binaries > that appear like they belong to postgres. The stuff under preserve is > obviously a backup from when I upgraded from Woody to Sarge. My > question is, how do I get rid of the extra stuff? The dumpall and > preserve subdirectories take up more than half of the space in > /var/lib/postgres.
I don't have those dirs on my system and I do have postgres installed. $ sudo find /var/lib/postgres/ -type d /var/lib/postgres/ /var/lib/postgres/data /var/lib/postgres/data/base /var/lib/postgres/data/base/1 /var/lib/postgres/data/base/17141 /var/lib/postgres/data/base/97564 /var/lib/postgres/data/base/98066 /var/lib/postgres/data/base/107641 /var/lib/postgres/data/global /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_clog /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_xlog I would guess you can delete those subdirectories you mention. Well, first save them somewhere of course. An apt-file search /var/lib/postgres/dumpall and apt-file search /var/lib/postgres/preserve didn't return any results. Reading /usr/share/doc/postgresql/README.Debian.migration.gz and scanning the files that come up in: grep -r "/var/lib/postgres/dumpall" /usr/lib/postgresql/ suggests that this dumpall directory is only used for upgrades. If the upgrade to a next postgres version has succeeded, it can be removed. Do sacrifice a cd for a backup of course. :) -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse
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