On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:44:14AM +1000, Matt H. wrote: > > I would like to clean out my /tmp partition as per the tip at > http://fedoranews.org/krishnan/tips/tip014.shtml. However, just one small Yes this is a bit heavy handed. You may not need to bother. On Fedora there is a cron task that cleans up /tmp and /var/tmp /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch It has two lines of interest here: /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 720 /var/tmp If you are out of space you can look for trouble files or just run these by hand with 'short' times. Something like. /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 120 /tmp # five days or /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 24 /tmp # one day Check out the man page for tmpwatch: tmpwatch - removes files which havenât been accessed for a period of time Also if you are out of space today when yesterday was fine look for the new file or interesting directory that is big and trouble. Remove only that one file or dir, I start looking with: ls -ltr /tmp /var/tmp | tail -20 On some SysV based operating systems /tmp is flushed at reboot. This is not true for RH Linux. I am not sure I like this idea but, it would be simple to add a 'once' line to inittab to prune the /tmp dir more aggressively and get a more SysV like behavior. Perhaps: /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 1 /tmp # one hour Just remember that you cannot remove a file and get back disk space that a runaway program has open. This is why I like to do the "ls -ltr" thing and then as you did use "lsof" to find out more. If this is a shared machine see also limits and quotas. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
