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So I ran the Nominatim setup script to import planet data into postgres with the following command:

./utils/setup.php --osm-file /postgres/OpenStreetMaps/planetfile/planet-latest.osm.pbf --all --osm2pgsql-cache 18000

And after several hours, the script failed with the following error message:

Processing: Node(2027272k 226.0k/s) Way(197726k 11.57k/s) Relation(0 0.00/s)COPY_END for COPY planet_osm_ways FROM STDIN;
 failed: ERROR:  could not extend file "base/18495/21039.22": wrote only 4096 of 8192 bytes at block 2954348
HINT:  Check free disk space.
CONTEXT:  COPY planet_osm_ways, line 156111299: "192204006      {2027680220,2027680175,2027680161,2027680104,2027680021,2027679996,2027679945,2027679899,2..."

Error occurred, cleaning up
osm2pgsql SVN version 0.81.0 (64bit id space)

ERROR: Error executing external command: /postgres/OpenStreetMaps/Nominatim-2.0.1/osm2pgsql/osm2pgsql -lsc -O gazetteer --hstore -C 18000 -d nominatim /postgres/OpenStreetMaps/planetfile/planet-latest.osm.pbf
Error executing external command: /postgres/OpenStreetMaps/Nominatim-2.0.1/osm2pgsql/osm2pgsql -lsc -O gazetteer --hstore -C 18000 -d nominatim /postgres/OpenStreetMaps/planetfile/planet-latest.osm.pbf

I'm not sure what's going on.. something about "free disk space"? I'm working on a machine with several TB of disk space. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

asked 01 Oct '13, 19:24

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Your disk might be partitioned. Make sure that you actually have ~ 700 GB of disk space available at the location where your postgresql tries to save the data to. In a standard Ubuntu setup that would be /var/lib/postgresql, so you'd want to type

df /var/lib/postgresql

and check that the numbers in the "Available" column is larger than 700 million.

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answered 01 Oct '13, 20:23

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Thanks! apparently the postgres directory only had ~60GB of space.

(01 Oct '13, 22:09) baekacaek

I have the same problem, the mount /var/lib/postgresql has only the capacity of 10 Gb and I dont have the admin rights to increase the size. But i have an another mount where IT has over 2TB of diskspace. How do I change the configuration of postgresql to use a different mount?

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answered 07 Dec '13, 20:53

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you ought to be able to add a new tablespace using CREATE TABLESPACE bla LOCATION mount-point. The directory needs to have +x persmission for the owner of the postgres database, usually postgres. You can then make the new tablespace the default tablespace for the database or explicitly allocate tables to that tablespace.

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