Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:55:56 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Putting /tmp on a separate volume? Message-ID: <200604221255.58250.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200604220231.38846.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> References: <200604220231.38846.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net>
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On Saturday 22 April 2006 10:31, Oliver Iberien wrote:
> I followed the automatic suggestions for slices at install time and now
> have a /tmp folder of 500M. This fills up at odd times and I was hoping to
> install a second drive and mount a section of it as /tmp.
>
> So far I managed to get a second drive partitioned. I replaced the slice
> in /etc/fstab for /tmp with one of the new partitions (in this case,
> ad1s1c). KDE would not start because it did not have the permissions for
> /tmp any more, so I put the following entries in /etc/devfs.conf:
>
> own /dev/ad1s1c root:wheel
> perm /dev/ad1s1c 0777
> own /tmp root:wheel
> perm /tmp 0777
>
> That didn't work. I initially tried with 0666 but that failed as well. The
> 0777 did not seem like a good long-term solution anyway.
>
01777
But before you do that try setting
clear_tmp_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
and
daily_clean_tmps_enable="YES" in /etc/periodic.conf
My /tmp typically has < 1MB in it.
There are a few programs that need huge amounts of tmp space, but IMHO it's
better to configure them to use somewhere else, rather than assign a large
amount of space to /tmp
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