Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:56:33 +0200 From: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Andy Wodfer" <wodfer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full Message-ID: <op.wjfx4jfjg7njmm@michael-think> 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 <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. :-) > > Cheers, > Andy If it's just locate.updatedb filling it up temporarily, perhaps you can solve this by ommitting part of your filesystem from the locate index. See /etc/locate.rc Regards, Michael
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