Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:12:25 +0200 From: Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full Message-ID: <CABgB0xTQ1pvkabpDMDBAVh5SwEU8%2BKAFSF2YzyC-Jspa4YAASw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CABgB0xTqD_tLHRoN_p9G7WiZ3ezsBpX7%2BqyLvBV6P1Od4aYKog@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABgB0xTEkY7mqSaSS-8PjO-nsdkpmyaYXEg5s9rEjHXmRERvzA@mail.gmail.com> <op.wjfx4jfjg7njmm@michael-think> <CABgB0xTqD_tLHRoN_p9G7WiZ3ezsBpX7%2BqyLvBV6P1Od4aYKog@mail.gmail.com>
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How can I find which directories break the MAXPATHLEN variable? or can I somehow run the periodic script in verbose mode to see the output? /Andy On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks to all for your input! > > Editing /etc/periodic.rc seem to do the trick, but now I faced a different > problem which I've never seen before: > > locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029 > > > There are some directories that contains A LOT of small files I think. > Need to investigate. > > Also thanks for the tip on omitting parts of the filesystem. Perhaps I > need to do that. > > /Andy > > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Michael Ross <gmx@ross.cx> wrote: > >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200, Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the >>> periodic LOCATE script runs every week. >>> >>> What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove >>> it >>> and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead (where I have >>> several hundred GBs free)? >>> >>> PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and >>> problems >>> to a minimum. :-) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Andy >>> >> >> If it's just locate.updatedb filling it up temporarily, >> perhaps you can solve this by ommitting part of your filesystem from the >> locate index. >> >> See /etc/locate.rc >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael >> > >
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