Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp
On 05/04/12 04:38, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 3. April 2012 schrieb Roger Leigh:
>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 06:00:23PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Joey Hess wrote:
>>>> Edit /etc/default/rcS, set RAMTMP=no, reboot. Or, set TMPDIR to
>>>> point to something like $HOME/tmp
>>>
>>> You don't need to reboot because of the size change.
>>>
>>> "mount -o remount,size=<desired size> /tmp" works, at least for
>>> increasing size. One of the good things of a tmpfs is that you can
>>> resize it dynamically.
>>>
>>>> You may also consider filing a bug, since the more people report
>>>> problems with Debian's new, absurdly small /tmp, the more likely it
>>>> is to get fixed.
>>>
>>> Hmm, yes, it can certaily be raised by popular demand. But what
>>> would probably help more is a set of profiles of /tmp sizes based on
>>> the amount of system ram to provide the initial default size.
>>
>> I noticed yesterday that Fedora is planning to go for using
>> tmpfs on /tmp as well.
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4MTg
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs
>>
>> Note that the latter has useful advice and notes in the Q&A
>> section which does pertain to the problems discussed in this
>> thread. It's clear that some of the problems will be fixed
>> as they are additionally found in Fedora, particularly WRT
>> the storage of large files on /tmp. It also notes that a
>> number of other distributions are also picking this up as
>> well, e.g. Ubuntu and Arch, so we are by no means alone in
>> implementing this.
>
> I like the notion to just use /var/tmp for anything big by default.
Doesn't that require manually deleting files when they're no longer
required?
> Of course this means changing applications like for example K3b, which uses
> /tmp for temporary images by default. At least it does here.
>
Likewise on Squeeze. /tmp/kde-$user
Easily changed:-
K3B (2.0.1) => Settings => Configure K3b.... => Miscellaneous settings
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