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Re: /tmp



* Skidley (skidley@roadrunner.nf.net) [020816 21:21]:
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 01:25:34AM -0230, Skidley wrote:
> > how can make a bigger /tmp? Is there some way to link /tmp to another
> > directory on another partition. I have a huge /home partition but I ended
> > up using some software tthat requires a bigger /tmp than i anticipated
> > needing( next repartition I'll not make same mistake). I've tried
> > linking with ln and ln -s but neither work. Any suggestions?

If you've created /tmp as its own partition, you can choose to use space
on another partition instead, but not easily in addition to, your
existing /tmp space.  Go to single-user mode and unmount /tmp.  Create
/tmp as a symlink to space on another partition, e.g. /home/tmp .  Go
back to multi-user mode and go nuts.

You might want to see if you can just have your particular application
use a different location for temporary files, perhaps by setting a
TMPDIR environment variable or by recompiling that app.

> also what are the proper permissions for /tmp in debian?

Mine looks like this:
drwxrwxrwt    8 root     root         4096 2002-08-16 21:28 /tmp

good times,
Vineet
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