grip_2ls wrote:

> Thanks for that, in which case the output is the following:
>
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 536G 135G 402G 26% /
>
> so not on the ntfs but the xfs partition. So I don't think that we can blame ntfs in this instance.
>
> xfs ok for Firebird?

Should not be a problem, but what IS on the ntfs partition? It's not just the
database, but the log files, temp files and things like that which could be
slowing things down. Some of the files may be stored there.

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