Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:26:15 +0100, Dom wrote:
> On 29/03/12 17:22, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:52:07 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>
>>> On Jo, 29 mar 12, 14:09:29, Camaleón wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That's the problem, Andrei. The nebook has 2 GiB of RAM, enough for
>>>> not having to care about this and the operation I was performing was
>>>> browsing a 75 MiB tar.gz file with Midnight Commander. That's simply
>>>> what flooded tpmfs and made MC to abort.
>>>
>>> Maybe I misunderstood, is that the compressed or the uncompressed
>>> size?
>>
>> It's the usual compressed kernel source file, e.g.:
>>
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.2.13.tar.bz2
>>
>>> 2GB RAM gives me a 403 MB /tmp ...
>>
>> "tmpfs" for "/tmp" was set to 423 MiB as I explained here¹ which seemed
>> to be not enough because, despite of the size, I run "out of space".
>>
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/11/msg02155.html
>
> The current kernel source file uncompresses to over 500MB. I'm guessing
> that mc uncompresses the whole file to examine it, so it will exceed
> your tmpfs size.
Yes, that's what happened. The space that was needed by "utar" it
exceeded the tmpfs default settings.
> Disclaimer: I've never used Midnight Commander
I use it almost every day for everything.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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