Re: /tmp is too small
2012/6/11 Roman V.Leon. <roman-vl@meta.ua>:
> On 11.06.2012 09:34, Jerome Flesch wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> I can't agree with assertion that this default behaviour is fine. I use
> "Eclipse" in my work, and yesterday i was ready to crash my head, because
> Eclipse showed me an error that it had not enough space to downloading and
> installing special plugin, which i was needed. I've checked 10 times that
> all file systems had enough space, in the end i've found the problem by
> doing `watch -n 1 df -h`. The /tmp folder (which was mounted like tmpfs) was
> filling only when extracting of the plugin was active. All I want to say,
> that sometimes this /tmp which mounted like tmpfs can lead to problems which
> is hard to find.
>
When I said it should be fine as-is, I meant with RAMTMP=no, so with
/tmp directly on / :)
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> Cheers,
> Roman V.Leon.
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