Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 15:26:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sort: write error: no space left on device Message-ID: <19980117152633.53615@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980117082343.2007A-100000@lessing.oit.umass.edu>; from "Greg Pavelcak" on Sat Jan 17 08:39:12 GMT 1998 References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980117082343.2007A-100000@lessing.oit.umass.edu>
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In the last episode (Jan 17), Greg Pavelcak said: > 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. It's filling up whatever partition /tmp is in. For a quick fix, edit /usr/libexec/locate.mklocatedb around line 43 and change TMPDIR to point to /usr/tmp. Or, remove /tmp and make it a symlink to /usr/tmp. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com
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