/tmp filesystem full

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, August 22, 2012 a las 12:59:13PM +0200, Andy Wodfer escribió:

> 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)?
> 
> PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and problems
> to a minimum. :-)

Hi,

See the script /usr/sbin/periodic, it supports TMPDIR env var and you
could direct this to some place with more space;

HIH

	matthias

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