repartition /tmp?

[Joshua Oreman]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:30:31AM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Nelson seemed to write:
> In the last episode (May 02), nick nelson said:
> > I appeared to have mitakenly made my /tmp partition on this machine
> > way too small (missed a 0 completely.).
> > 
> > I know it's not easy to repartition without reinstalling but does
> > anyone have any suggestions at all on how I can make the /tmp
> > parition bigger easily? I have a lot of data and a lot of work on
> > this machine, reinstalling isn't very feasible, however if i can
> > reinstall /tmp only, that's possible.
> 
> What I end up doing is removing /tmp and symlinking it to /usr/tmp.

You should probably make that /var/tmp if you have space on /var --
/usr/tmp is not supposed to be world-writable.

HTH,
-- Josh

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