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? > > 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. > I think you can create a file and mount that as /tmp. I'm not sure of the details. Something else to watch out for: if your tmp file is /home/mytmpfile, but /home is in its own partition, then /home will need to be mounted before /tmp can be mounted. I'm not sure if that's technically possible or not.
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