Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:25:51 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full Message-ID: <20120822142551.ceefe569.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <201208221314.q7MDEZ4K060644@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <CABgB0xTEkY7mqSaSS-8PjO-nsdkpmyaYXEg5s9rEjHXmRERvzA@mail.gmail.com> <201208221314.q7MDEZ4K060644@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:14:35 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote: > > 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 /usr/tmp usually does not exist so creating it and symlinking /tmp to it is OK. > 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. A null mount would be a safer way of pushing /tmp onto /usr or indeed any other filesystem - that way when the null mount fails the mount point is still a directory. There's really no point in linking it elsewhere on the same filesystem. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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