/tmp filesystem full

[Andy Wodfer]

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 at 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 at ross.cx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200, Andy Wodfer <wodfer at 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
>>
>
>