Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:14:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, wodfer@gmail.com Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full Message-ID: <201208221314.q7MDEZ4K060644@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <CABgB0xTEkY7mqSaSS-8PjO-nsdkpmyaYXEg5s9rEjHXmRERvzA@mail.gmail.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 22 05:59:52 2012 > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200 > From: Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> > To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: /tmp filesystem full > > 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)? That is a BAD IDEA(tm)! There are appliations that assume /tmp, /var/tmp, and /usr/tmp are _distinct_ directories. They will create files _with_the_same_name_ in two of those 'temp' locations, expecting them to be unique.o It _is_ OK to symlink /tmp to 'somewhere else', with the caveat that it "should" be on the '/' filesystem -- one may need it in single-user mode befoe other filesystems are mounted. You can 'live dangerously' and symlink to a dir on a different filesystem and _probably_ not have problems.
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