ah, cool. On 11 Jul 2013 20:38, "Tim Tisdall" <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I said "equal to the content" my intended meaning was the data size > and not the disk size of the database. > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hit send to soon. I meant the 'data_size' field of course. > > > > b. > > > > > > On 11 July 2013 20:13, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > " but you need space equal to the content of the database to do a > > compaction." > > > > > > That's not true. You need space equal to the "disk_size" value from > > > GET /dbname. The only time your statement would be true is if you > > > compacted a database that you had just compacted and had made no > > > changes to. Compacting it again will just write the whole thing out > > > again. Obviously this worse case is also the case where there's no > > > point compacting anyway. > > > > > > B. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 11 July 2013 20:00, Tim Tisdall <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> You could delete the generated views in > /var/lib/couchdb/.your_database/ > > >> and recover a little extra space. There could also be a partially > done > > >> compaction in /var/lib/couchdb/ > > >> > > >> The longer term solution is to do compactions... but you need space > > equal > > >> to the content of the database to do a compaction. > > >> > > >> > > >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Matthias Eck <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hello, > > >>> > > >>> I have a CouchDB database that is on a 1TB partition on Amazon EC2. > > >>> Unfortunately the database now filled the whole partition and 1TB is > > the > > >>> size limit on Amazon EC2, so I cannot copy it to a larger partition. > > >>> > > >>> 1. I would like to get the database running again. Are there any > files > > that > > >>> I can safely delete to save some immediate space so CouchDB will run > > again? > > >>> > > >>> 2. Any suggestions to solve this problem longer-term? Is it possible > to > > >>> have a database spanning multiple partitions? > > >>> > > >>> Thanks, > > >>> Matthias > > >>> > > >
