Re: /tmp Cannot write: No space left on device

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Björn Lindström wrote:

>Kai Hendry <hendry@iki.fi> writes:
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>>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
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>>I'm not sure how my /tmp directory works. But I've noticed a couple
>>of times I run out of space on it.
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>/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.
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"du -h /tmp" should give you an idea of how much space /tmp is taking.
If it's significant, you can manually clean it out (you might want to
switch to single-user mode first) or reboot, which will clean it out
automagically.

This is one of the reasons I use more than one partition; I tend to have
separate partitions for /, /tmp, /usr, /usr/local, /var, and /home. In
your case, I'd consider moving the /var or /usr or /usr/local to your
/home partition, and then symlinking it back to the original location.
Say, for example, your /var directory typically runs around 800MB in
size; you could move it, which would free 800MB off the / partition:

    mv  /var  /home
    ln  -s  /home/var  /var


-- 
Kent