Re: /tmp size

[David Roundy <droundy@jdj5.mit.edu>]

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,

To see if /tmp is a separate partition (and its size, if it is) run

df -h  (the -h gives you human readable units, which is handy)
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David Roundy
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