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Chris Dritsas wrote:

: When trying to use the 'locate' command I get this error:
: 
:    "locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database"
: 
: How to I make it bigger so that it shall work?

Have you ever run /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb? If not, execute it and
try again then.

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