At 02:22 PM 1/12/99 -0700, John Reilly wrote:
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>In connection with locate I saw the command "updatedb" in one of my books. I
>tried it yesterday and got:
>"sort: write error: no space left on device"
>Today when I try it I get that same line plus an additional line:
>"updatedb: new database would be empty"
>It looks like this should be a clue but I don't even know what "device"
>refers to.
Oh. Does "df" work? If so, what does it tell you? (I'm wondering if the
filesystem that has /tmp on it is nearly full, preventing apps from creating
needed scratch files. That's almost surely what the response from updatedb
is about.)
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