From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 15:34:49 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 47B6937B401 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 15:34:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9657343FBF for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 15:34:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oremanj@adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net) Received: (qmail 45183 invoked by uid 1001); 2 May 2003 22:35:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 15:35:04 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: <20030502223504.GA45072@webserver.get-linux.org> References: <20030502051509.GA20957@arpa.com> <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030502053031.GD58262@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repartition /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: Fri, 02 May 2003 22:34:49 -0000 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 > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > 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"