On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 01:48:25PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I need more space for /tmp. I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp > entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses > the the space on the root partition, which has more than room enough. > But then I discover that in my newly installed wheezy system, there *is* > no /etc/fstab entry for /tmp. Apparently the kernel, all by itself, > decides to mount the tmpfs on /tmp. > > How can I get it not to do this?
Set RAMTMP=no in /etc/default/rcS (or /etc/default/tmpfs, depending upon the initscripts version you have). This is not done by the kernel, it's done by the initscripts at startup (/etc/init.d/mount*.sh). Note that the latest version in unstable changes the default for RAMTMP from "yes" to "no", so it'll be disabled once this enters testing (next time you restart). > Or alternatively, how can I enlarge the tmpfs? I need it enlarged from > anout 200M to about 2G for this week's project. Yes, that's a lot bigger > than my RAM. Set TMP_SIZE=2g in /etc/default/tmpfs, or add an entry in /etc/fstab with size=2g. Note that you'll need enough RAM + swap to back this usage, so you might want to increase the swap size. As an example (perhaps a little extreme), I have 8 GiB RAM + 16 GiB swap and a 5GiB tmpfs on /tmp. This is because the default (in unstable) is 20%VM i.e. 20% of all RAM + swap. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120607135814.gi15...@codelibre.net
