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On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200
Andy Wodfer 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)?
> 


Either that or you could use tmpfs. You could also change the locate
tmp directory in /etc/locate.rc.


There's also a periodic script to remove older files from /tmp which
may help.