MySQL: #126 - Incorrect key file for table

Question

I got the following error from a MySQL query.

#126 - Incorrect key file for table

I have not even declared a key for this table, but I do have i

Answer 1

Following these instructions allowed me to recreate my tmp directory and fix the issue:

Display all file systems and their disk usage in human readable form:

df -h

Find the processes that have files open in /tmp

sudo lsof /tmp/**/*

Then umount /tmp and /var/tmp:

umount -l /tmp
umount -l /var/tmp

Then remove the corrupt partition file:

rm -fv /usr/tmpDSK

Then create a nice new one:

/scripts/securetmp

Note that by editing the securetmp Perl script you can manually set the size of the tmp directory yourself, however just running the script increased the size of the tmp directory on our server from roughly 450MB to 4.0GB.