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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:04:48 +0200
From:      Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /tmp filesystem full
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Btw, is /etc/locate.rc being read at all?

/Andy

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't seem to figure out the problem with MAXPATHLEN.
>
>
> locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1029
>
>
> In my /etc/locate.rc I have pruned several directories (even the most
> obvious) - still the locate DB exeeds well over 1GB before outputting this
> error message.
>
> I have moved the tmp dir for locate to /usr/tmp which works fine (changed
> in locate script) and there is no problems with diskspace here.
>
> the find awk command suggested earlier in this thread didn't give me a
> better clue about what's happening.
>
> Anyone have any other ideas what I can try to find out why locate fails?
>
> Thanks!
> Andy
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >  tmpfs and "swap" md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen any
>> >  advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp.
>>
>> Then you don't understand. ;-)  The advantage of my approach is
>> avoiding a kernel panic when writing to the tmpfs when you haven't
>> pre-allocated all the filesystem space at creation time.  If that
>> happens to matter to you...
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