relocating /tmp to other media

[Dimitar Vasilev]

2005/11/7, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:54:29PM -0500, Dave wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    I'm trying to run bitdefender on a 5.4 system. It works fine up until /
> > fills up, i'm having it scan a 40 gb smb mounted windows share and when /
> > fills specifically /tmp bitdefender cores out. My / filesystem on this box
> > is i believe either 130mb or 256mb, and this issue does not occur when
> > scanning a 20 gb drive. I was wondering if it's possible to relocate /tmp
> > to other media ramdisk, tmpfs, or the like?
>
> If you have a partition with enough space (e.g. /usr); Create a
> directory /usr/tmp. Drop into single user mode and move everything from
> /tmp to /usr/tmp. Remove /tmp, and create a symlink /tmp to /usr/tmp.
>
> Roland
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If you have enough RAM, try also memfs for tmp.
However beware of zipbombs ;-)

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