From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 05:33:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B9416A401 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 05:32:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [216.218.220.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E257D13C4A7 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 05:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from [172.23.10.40] (nat-service4.juniper.net [66.129.225.151]) (authenticated bits=0) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l185Ww6r051532 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Message-ID: <45CAB605.1070901@enabled.com> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:32:53 -0800 From: Noah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper References: <45CA6413.6000400@enabled.com> <20070207193234.BFA4.GERARD@seibercom.net> <45CA7215.7030004@enabled.com> <45CA9854.7040903@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45CA9854.7040903@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:33:00 -0000 > > From rc.conf(5): > > clear_tmp_enable > (bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at startup. > > Why not setup a parallel (background) task with a wrapper script to > delete some files when upgrading ports? Either that or find a (more) > free partition and symlink /var/tmp to it. > yeah out of all the ideas this seems the easiest to implement and just makes sense but I am having difficulties creating the sym link for /tmp ns1# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 507630 163076 303944 35% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1e 507630 -6 467026 -0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 150732286 7152956 131520748 5% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 2011694 129230 1721530 7% /var ns1# umount /dev/ad0s1e umount: unmount of /tmp failed: Device busy ns1# clues please? Cheers, Noah > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > 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"