From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 20:52:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789F916A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6022443FBD for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:52:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from ec.rr.com (cpe-024-211-231-149.ec.rr.com [24.211.231.149]) h923oVVx024833; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:50:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F7BCB76.8010902@ec.rr.com> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 23:53:42 -0700 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dragoncrest References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031001222743.01fb2550@pop.voyager.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20031001222743.01fb2550@pop.voyager.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:52:50 -0000 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