Re: /tmp size

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:36:24PM -0800, Richard Otte wrote:
> 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,

Look at the output of

   # mount
   # fdisk -l
   # df

The first command will show you what drives/partitions are mounted,
the second where they are on disk, and how big they are.  And the
last will tell you how much free space is on the mounted drives.

And no, tmp is not your swap space.

-- 
groetjes, carel