Increasing /tmp size
 

Hi,
When I do a 'startx', X-Server crashes with error message:not enough space in /tmp. How do I increase this swap space?

Thanks
Anil

u can create a swap partition using fdisk or a swap file with dd,

2 steps to make the swap space active:

1.)mkswap
2.)swapon

you should create entries in the /etc/fstab for each new swap area you create,

for more information, use man mkswap

Re: Increasing /tmp size
 

Couldn't you delete what's in there, it is only temp files that usually aren't needed. How big is the partition for your /tmp directory ??

Thanks for the replies.
The size of /tmp is 600MB and also I cleaned it several times.

:confused:

something else is going on then. my /tmp directory is a 64MB tmpfs device.

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,size=64m 0 0

so 600MB should be far, far more than you need.