/tmp size

[Richard Otte <otte@cats.ucsc.edu>]

I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around
50mb.  I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio
cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough.  This is strange, because I
probably have 50gb empty on my hard drive.  I'm wondering if /tmp is a
separate partition (is this my swap partition?) or why it won't use up
the empty disk space.  I don't know how to find out the exact limits
on /tmp, except by what xcdroast told me.

Can anyone explain to me what is going on, and what to do.  Thanks,

Ric