2012/6/7 Hendrik Boom <[email protected]>: > 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? > Edit /etc/default/rcS and switch RAMTMP=yes to RAMTMP=no.
If you're on a workstation, it should be fine as-is. If you're on a server, I suggest you mount a /tmp using /etc/fstab anyway, just to make sure that no user can overflow your / by filling /tmp with random data. > 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. > > -- hendrik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAQa3SuhJPx73ydymf2VKFjPiE_r8AX7Ktn42Ue+=jbosdq...@mail.gmail.com
