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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2007 22:43:02 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager
Message-ID:  <17866.40006.363894.737019@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070208011725.GB22827@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <45CA6413.6000400@enabled.com> <20070208011725.GB22827@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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Jerry McAllister writes:

>  > /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information 
>  > and build details during its run.
>  > 
>  > what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates?
>  
>  Well, you could move /tmp to a bigger space.

	I think the best practice would be to a) figure out why those
files are left behind and b) remove them, either as part of a
properly functioning portmanager session of with a separate script
(perhaps from via cron).

>  Then, when you have the opportunity, rethink your partitioning
>  and redo it.  I tend to create my desktop with 512 MB /tmp and
>  serious working systems sometimes with a little more.

	May I ask what you're using /tmp for? While I could see systems
which needed that, it seems a little excessive for a vanilla
desktop.  My FreeBSD desktop, well, see for yourself:

huff@>> df /
Filesystem  1K-blocks   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a    495726 279388 176680    61%    /

	/tmp is 44 _k_b, and only rarely breaks 200.


				Robert Huff



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