Richard Otte writes: > I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around > 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio > cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I > probably have 50gb empty on my hard drive. I'm wondering if /tmp is a > separate partition (is this my swap partition?) or why it won't use up > the empty disk space. I don't know how to find out the exact limits > on /tmp, except by what xcdroast told me. > > Can anyone explain to me what is going on, and what to do. Thanks,
Use: % df You'll have a line that looks something like: /dev/hda7 12345 345 12000 3% /tmp if you have a separate /tmp partition. If you don't, you won't see a /tmp, but just a / entry (and possibly others). To get more space--make back ups!!! Then, you can use resize2fs to shrink a partition and make a new one for /tmp. Or, you can just not mount /tmp--this means that the partition on which / is mounted will be used for /tmp. You may or may not want the latter. You can then use /tmp for something else, or just delete it by adding its space to a different partition. The easiest solution is not to mount /tmp and use /, but requires enough space in your / partition. It also means that somebody could potentially try to use up all your disk space in the root partition by filling up /tmp. Andrew.
