Error – database too small: /var/db/locate.database

Locate is a cool utility that allows you to search through your filesystem quickly thanks to an index database it maintains. It should update this index automatically at midnight (at least on Linux), but sometime you want to do that manually to have an up to date database index immediatelly. Also, if you run into the database too small: /var/db/locate.database issue, you can fix it with the following command as well:

$ doas /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

 Afterwards, locate should execute normally.