Running out of disk space in updatedb?

[James Youngman]

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?35254 proposes compressing the
temporary files generated by "sort" dyring updatedb.

Has anyone on the list experienced an out-of-disk-space problem when
running updatedb in a situation where compression would have wholly
resolved the problem?   If there is 0 space left, compression won't
help.  If the disk is being slowly filled, compression only buys a
short time.  Anybody had a similar problem in a situation where
compression would provide a permanent benefit?

Thanks,
James.