SQLITE3 VACUUM, “database or disk is full”

Question

I\'m trying to run the VACUUM command on my database, but I seem to run out of space:

> sqlite3 mydatabase.db \"VACUUM\"
Error: database or d         


        

Answer 1

To allow the VACUUM command to run, change the directory for temporary files to one that has enough free space.

SQLite's documentation says the temporary directory is (in order):

1. whatever is set with the PRAGMA temp_store_directory command; or
2. whatever is set with the SQLITE_TMPDIR environment variable; or
3. whatever is set with the TMPDIR environment variable; or
4. /var/tmp; or
5. /usr/tmp; or
6. /tmp; or
7. ., the current working directory