From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 09:04:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE581065674 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:04:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wodfer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-f54.google.com (mail-qa0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9288FC27 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qatn12 with SMTP id n12so360785qat.13 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:04:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=LnuB6kVpR+i0ILhJUQaw1wbZ9FfNzeaNgTUs5kdlBCU=; b=lHxRBpddSC/xBWvC3wuzciifcZSWzdgWrFvmaJOtWcaZWO3/DiqP7iTXD5o8pqq8RB AhE1U+e29emJUCor7ALednsx4ntJIH7Im5GskR6XbkfeiwwHP9c3QkLNdZSEvRp5jc8K CgSJgDTEFHyUK+BuWd8SOtXPFuWW4TJkQvyhUyTeUU/PDCs8MKGeFaKEdvuG03fsS/5c zkgdQBd+tztfyK/TkzGFcM07lATflBnAXwlZ6PfuTq/C2YWIsq1sMJnp85bDe4JcCDQ3 9yIGZS9TY/+QjtOrfprM8Oohl8s/SodrEvxW18QHcHoHLdea7GJydlTJTleI6plVbsLU Xq0g== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.105.100 with SMTP id s36mr326700qco.88.1345712688175; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.164.206 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:04:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201208221934.q7MJYfwM063804@mail.r-bonomi.com> <1345664911.2501.8.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> <20120822232112.07ac3517@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120822232907.34fc82fc@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120823031754.0b52bed6@gumby.homeunix.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:04:48 +0200 Message-ID: From: Andy Wodfer To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:04:49 -0000 Btw, is /etc/locate.rc being read at all? /Andy On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Andy Wodfer 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 wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW 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... >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > >