From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 05:39:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27860 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 05:39:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rfd1.oit.umass.edu (mailhub.oit.umass.edu [128.119.175.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA27853 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 05:39:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu) Received: from lessing.oit.umass.edu by rfd1.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #20973) with ESMTP id <0EMX003MTKLC5X@rfd1.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:39:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by lessing.oit.umass.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id IAA15736 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:39:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:39:12 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Pavelcak Subject: sort: write error: no space left on device To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I was met with that message apparently from /etc/periodic/weekly this morning. Actually, it looked like this: Rebuilding locate database: sort: write error: No space left on device locate.mklocatedb: cannot build locate database df shows: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Cap. Mnted On /dev/wd0a 31775 22575 6658 77% / /dev/wd0s1f 1813231 1311336 356837 79% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 27679 6664 18801 26% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Do you think that's really full enough to run out of space during makewhatis? If so, is it bumping up against the end of /usr or /? I'm guessing /usr. I'm sort of hoping I am running out of space. I can show this message to my girlfriend this morning, and I haven't gotten my Christmas present yet. Hmmm ... Thanks. Greg