Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:33:21 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp running out of inodes Message-ID: <200812181133.21330.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <7fec743f0812180854o2e66bee2m8369eba789290758@mail.gmail.com> References: <7fec743f0812180854o2e66bee2m8369eba789290758@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 18 December 2008 10:54:33 Tankko wrote: > On a side question...what the the best policy for deleting files from > /tmp? Seems like a lot of apps are happy to leave files in /tmp. What kind of files are you seeing in /tmp? I have files in mine from July, but only about 7,000 files today - not nearly enough to run out of inodes (not that it should crash the FS anyway). > Is clean up commonly done as a cron job? What about files like mysql.sock= > which are important. I can't just blindly remove everything in /tmp each > night. I think you really need to figure out what's spamming /tmp. You *can* do something like "find /tmp -type f -oldermt '3 days ago' -delete", but that's just addressing the symptoms. -- Kirk Strauser
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