Re: /tmp Cannot write: No space left on device
Kai Hendry <hendry@iki.fi> writes:
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 6.5G 6.1G 0 100% /
> /dev/hda6 21G 12G 7.8G 60% /home
> tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
> tmpfs 10M 72K 10M 1% /dev
>
> I'm not sure how my /tmp directory works. But I've noticed a couple
> of times I run out of space on it.
/tmp is just a directory on your root partition. 6.1 GB on your root
partition seems like a lot to me. Maybe you can clean something out.
> Why is my mount reporting it's 10M? That's tiny. I'm sure I didn't
> purposefully set that whilst installing Debian.
>
> Why does df -h give two entries for tmpfs, where both don't seem to be fully
> used!
Those are tmpfs filesystems, but they have nothing to do with /tmp (as
you can see under "Mounted on").
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