Simon: Thank you - let me run all this to ground.
Ray On Sep 10, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Simon Slavin wrote: > > On 10 Sep 2011, at 8:28pm, Ray wrote: > >> I am using the Sqlite3 API. >> >> Why is so much free disc required? > > The error you reported means "I have run out of free space on a disk.". > > SQLite makes temporary files while you use it. If you use some APIs these > temporary files go in the same folder as the database. If you use other APIs > these temporary files go on the boot disk. > > On some operating systems the OS demands to have a lot of space free space on > the boot disk so it has space to do its own things. So if you are using a > database on a different disk it would complain only if free space was zero, > but if you are using a database on a boot disk it might refuse to give you > any more disk space if it has less than, perhaps, 10 Gigabytes free. This is > not a function of SQLite, it's the way the operating system works. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
