Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 23:53:42 -0700 From: jason <jason@ec.rr.com> To: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp Message-ID: <3F7BCB76.8010902@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20031001222743.01fb2550@pop.voyager.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031001222743.01fb2550@pop.voyager.net>
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Dragoncrest wrote: > I've got a sight problem I need help with. Trying to install > WolfET on my Freebsd workstation and it requires something like 286 > megs of free space on /tmp. My /tmp is only 256. So I'm kinda sunk. > Any way I can enlarge this short of a complete wipe and repartition of > the drive? Or can I temporarily mount another drive to /tmp, install > the game, then umount/mount back to what it was? I know I probubly > should have made my /tmp 512megs, but when I was originally installing > this box I didn't think about that at the time. Is there a way to > work around this problem or am I kinda screwed in general? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > That is easy. Type man mdmfs for details, the quick explaination is to make a memory file system and mount it at /tmp. After a reboot or unmounting the mfs is gone without a trace and /tmp was the way it was before, also if there are files in /tmp before you start they disappear after a mounting and reapear after unmounting. So this should do it: $mdmfs -s 512m md /tmp a 512MB swap backed file system mounted at /tmp. jason
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