Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:12:57 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /tmp filesystem full Message-ID: <20120822181257.7c940751@AMD620.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <CABgB0xTEkY7mqSaSS-8PjO-nsdkpmyaYXEg5s9rEjHXmRERvzA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABgB0xTEkY7mqSaSS-8PjO-nsdkpmyaYXEg5s9rEjHXmRERvzA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200 Andy Wodfer <wodfer@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the > periodic LOCATE script runs every week. > > What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply > remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp instead > (where I have several hundred GBs free)? > > PS! This is on a live server and I would like to keep downtime and > problems to a minimum. :-) > downtime will be kept to a minimum with this method. Can't you put another drive into this machine? Erich
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