Re: /tmp is too small
2012/6/7 Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>:
> I need more space for /tmp. I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp
> entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses
> the the space on the root partition, which has more than room enough.
> But then I discover that in my newly installed wheezy system, there *is*
> no /etc/fstab entry for /tmp. Apparently the kernel, all by itself,
> decides to mount the tmpfs on /tmp.
>
> How can I get it not to do this?
>
Edit /etc/default/rcS and switch RAMTMP=yes to RAMTMP=no.
If you're on a workstation, it should be fine as-is.
If you're on a server, I suggest you mount a /tmp using /etc/fstab
anyway, just to make sure that no user can overflow your / by filling
/tmp with random data.
> Or alternatively, how can I enlarge the tmpfs? I need it enlarged from
> anout 200M to about 2G for this week's project. Yes, that's a lot bigger
> than my RAM.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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