Re: increase space in /tmp
- From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:19:41 -0800
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:45:35AM -0500, Mark Neidorff <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
Is it possible to increase the space available in /tmp without doing the
backup/repartition/reinstall/restore dance?
I'm trying to backup a dvd using k9copy. It wants to have about 8 gig free in
the /tmp partition, but when I set the system up, I gave /tmp much less than
that. k9copy wants to write to /tmp/kde-mark/k9copy* so I tried creating a
link from /tmp/kde-mark to a partition with lots of space (while in single
user mode since messing with /tmp when "X" is active can be dicey). I made
sure the permissions were correct, but when I restarted in normal mode, the
system created and used a sub-directory under /tmp like
this: /tmp/kde-mark6C5838b thereby circumventing my efforts. Do I have to
backup, repartition and restore or is there a better way?
If k9copy reads an environment variable (usually TEMP or TMP) to find
the temporary directory, you could try setting that to somewhere that
has more space (e.g., ~/tmp). Its documentation might say more about which
environment variables it respects. If it's a GUI program, you could also
check its interactive configuration and see whether there's a setting
controlling where the temporary files go.
Daniel
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