On Sunday 19 March 2006 03:33, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 21:54 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 18 March 2006 20:00, Tom Spec wrote: > > > If /tmp gets full that would definitely cause problems > > > with your system. > > > > > > What is the output of df? > > > > > > If /tmp is 100% full you can either go in there and > > > delete stuff, or make it bigger. > > > > /tmp is under /, and there is 1.6GB free. I think that I had just got > > something into a loop so that it was filling up with temporary space. I > > had to reboot, and everything's fine now. Just a pebcak, I think. > > What is your filesystem structure? > /tmp being part of / can be a _bad thing_ in cases as you just saw. > > Only 1.6GiB of free space in / would not be a bad thing if / is small > and <70% used. OTOH, if / is a large partition and usage is in the 90%+ > range that is not a good thing. > / is 7.6GB and 79% full. There is 1.2GB in there that could be moved out, if necessary, though I'd prefer to keep it there if possible. I have plenty of free space on that drive. I could create a new partition for /tmp. I know it is possible to redirect to the new partition, but I'm not sure how to do it. Is it just a matter of creating an fstab line, or would the presenct of /tmp under root confuse matters? I presume I could not delete /tmp from the running system. I could use knoppix, of course. This logic feels wrong. I'll think about it some more, but also appreciate advice. Anne
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