On Thu, 04 Dec 2008, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Lisi Reisz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Here's another simpleton question. :-(
> >
> > I managed to backup onto my / partition. I have rm-ed most of the
> > resulting
> > garbage. But I am left with a 100% full /tmp and df tells me that this is
>
> Most comments in that thread lead you to the correct conclusions that:
>
> - filling up /tmp is not good
> - blindly destroying files in /tmp is not good (desktop envs keep data
> and sockets there)
[lots of other good reasons why /tmp matters]
These are all reasons why you may want to consider setting TMPDIR; I
personally have the following in my ~/.bashrc:
if [ ! -e ~/tmp ]; then
mkdir ~/tmp;
fi;
export TMPDIR="$(echo ~/tmp)";
Something similar may also be useful (/home is the largest partition
on most of my machines, and coupled with tmpreaper in anacron/crontab
works reasonably, though tmpreaper has its own "issues"). [This also
has the added benifit of avoiding tempfile race conditions.]
Don Armstrong
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