Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:13:11 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full Message-ID: <20120822111310.GA1928@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <CABgB0xTEkY7mqSaSS-8PjO-nsdkpmyaYXEg5s9rEjHXmRERvzA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABgB0xTEkY7mqSaSS-8PjO-nsdkpmyaYXEg5s9rEjHXmRERvzA@mail.gmail.com>
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El día Wednesday, August 22, 2012 a las 12:59:13PM +0200, Andy Wodfer escribió: > 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. :-) Hi, See the script /usr/sbin/periodic, it supports TMPDIR env var and you could direct this to some place with more space; HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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