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Date:      Fri, 2 May 2003 15:35:04 -0700
From:      Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: repartition /tmp?
Message-ID:  <20030502223504.GA45072@webserver.get-linux.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20030502051509.GA20957@arpa.com> <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:30:31AM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Nelson seemed to write:
> In the last episode (May 02), nick nelson said:
> > I appeared to have mitakenly made my /tmp partition on this machine
> > way too small (missed a 0 completely.).
> > 
> > I know it's not easy to repartition without reinstalling but does
> > anyone have any suggestions at all on how I can make the /tmp
> > parition bigger easily? I have a lot of data and a lot of work on
> > this machine, reinstalling isn't very feasible, however if i can
> > reinstall /tmp only, that's possible.
> 
> What I end up doing is removing /tmp and symlinking it to /usr/tmp.

You should probably make that /var/tmp if you have space on /var --
/usr/tmp is not supposed to be world-writable.

HTH,
-- Josh

> 
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