df works. The first line shows /dev/hda1 as full, 100% capacity with 85520
blocks, "mounted on /"
I don't know where the /tmp is . This sure looks like the problem But I
haven't the slightest idea what to do!
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> At 02:22 PM 1/12/99 -0700, John Reilly wrote:
> [deleted]
> >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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