Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 00:07:30 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager Message-ID: <90D12A48-2A57-4BB2-906F-E98AB21C070B@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45CAB605.1070901@enabled.com> References: <45CA6413.6000400@enabled.com> <20070207193234.BFA4.GERARD@seibercom.net> <45CA7215.7030004@enabled.com> <45CA9854.7040903@u.washington.edu> <45CAB605.1070901@enabled.com>
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On Feb 7, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Noah wrote: > > >> >> 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 Like many things, when playing with a live filesystem your hands are pretty much tied. Booting into single user mode and remounting your / slice fixes that though ;). -Garrett
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