Re: Disk is filling up with large files. How can I clean? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Another possibility is orphaned files.
See https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/can-there-be-orphaned-data-files-in-postgresql/
and https://github.com/bdrouvot/pg_orphaned
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Sergey

On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 at 19:02, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 4:10 AM Mikael Petterson <mikaelpetterson@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I find our disk is filling up.
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>> sudo find /var/lib -type f -size +100M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'
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> ...
>
> Those files only add up to about 30GB. That's pretty small these days : time for a bigger disk? Or perhaps the space
iselsewhere: probably want to do something like 
> sudo find / -xdev -maxdepth 2 -exec du -sh {} \; | grep -E 'G|M' | sort -g
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> Cheers,
> Greg
>


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Sergey