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From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full
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Hi,

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200
Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the
> periodic LOCATE script runs every week.
> 
> What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply
> remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead
> (where I have several hundred GBs free)?
> 
> PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and
> problems to a minimum. :-)
> 
downtime will be kept to a minimum with this method.

Can't you put another drive into this machine?

Erich