> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 22 08:27:59 2012 > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:25:51 +0100 > From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <st...@sohara.org> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:14:35 -0500 (CDT) > Robert Bonomi <bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote: > > > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Aug 22 05:59:52 2012 > > > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200 > > > From: Andy Wodfer <wod...@gmail.com> > > > To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > > Subject: /tmp filesystem full > > > > > > Hi, > > > I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the > > > periodic LOCATE script runs every week. > > > > > > What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply > > > remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead > > > (where I have several hundred GBs free)? > > > > That is a BAD IDEA(tm)! > > > > There are appliations that assume /tmp, /var/tmp, and /usr/tmp are > > _distinct_ directories. They will create files _with_the_same_name_ in > > two of those 'temp' locations, expecting them to be unique.o > > /usr/tmp usually does not exist so creating it and > symlinking /tmp to it is OK.
I've used enough different versions of Unix wher '/usr/tmp/ _was_ a standard diretory to be *very* leery. <wry grin> _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
