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Re: strange problem with disk space



[Valerio Pachera]
> I wounder what means the line
>   none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
> outputed form the 'mount' comand
> May someone explain it?

It mean that /tmp is a RAM file system.

> I think i remember on time I was worink on another distribution and
> created a dvd image file in /tmp folder of debian edu but after I
> turned debian edu on, the file was missing. I thought the /tmp got
> clean at the mount.
> The problem may be that...I'm not even sure of remembering correctly :(

This could be the problem.  You might have a file in the /tmp/
directory on disk, and it is hidden by the RAM file system mounted on
top of /tmp/.  To check this out, try commenting out the /tmp entry in
/etc/fstab, reboot, see if there is any content there, put the entry
back into /etc/fstab, and reboot again to get back where you started.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen


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