Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:18:20 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full Message-ID: <20120822121820.39fc10fe@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <CABgB0xTEkY7mqSaSS-8PjO-nsdkpmyaYXEg5s9rEjHXmRERvzA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABgB0xTEkY7mqSaSS-8PjO-nsdkpmyaYXEg5s9rEjHXmRERvzA@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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