Git : fatal: unable to write new_index file

Apr
05
2010
1
By David Luhman

Let's say you try the following command :

$ git status
fatal: unable to write new_index file

One cause of this that I found was that my file system had run out of space. Finding large directories with something like the following helped clean up some log files that had run wild :

$ du -h / | grep ^[0-9.]*G

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Git

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