From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 6 04:09:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20668 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 04:09:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA20655 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 04:09:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.150]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAAA41; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 13:09:37 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <366A5E8E.7C37D7BE@cio.net> Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 13:15:10 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Anthony Hoelzle Subject: RE: locate database Cc: FreeBSD questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Dec-98 Anthony Hoelzle wrote: > I keep getting local mail to root from the system (Charlie) that says, > >>Subject: Abados Weekly run output >> >>Rebuilding locate database: >>sort: write error: Nospace left on device >>locate.mklocatedb: cannot build locate database >> >>Rebuilding whatis database: >> >>Cleaning up kernel database files: > > what is the problem? do I not have a large enough partition? how do I > fix this? thanks #df Anything >94% is a bad thing(tm) with regard to performance. man tunefs might also be handy My bet is that / is over it's capacity... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message