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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:25:19 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Scott Gerhardt <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Size requirements for /tmp
Message-ID:  <20020118162518.B45913@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGOEFBDJAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>; from scott@gerhardt-it.com on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:32:38PM -0600
References:  <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGOEFBDJAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:32:38PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
> Just wondering what the potential size requirements for /tmp are?
> I'm running a relatively quiet web/mail server and there never seems to be
> much in /tmp.
>=20
> I was thinking of symlinking /tmp to /usr/tmp to be on the safe side.
>=20
> I know this is purely system dependant, but what is an expected range for
> /tmp space requirements?  Is it a few MB or 100s of MB?

Depends on what you're doing on the machine, of course, but 50MB is
usually sufficient for normal use.

Kris

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