Problem with full /tmp
 

Hi,

I have a strange problem with the /tmp directory on my Slack64 workstation.

The last error message means too many arguments.

Something seems to have spammed my /tmp directory. According to du -sh /tmp, there's about 900 MB of files in there. No idea where that's coming from.

Any idea how I can clean up this mess?

you could start by just looking at what files are there, but when the commandline is too long, you can use find to process one file at a time:

find /tmp/whatever -exec rm -f {}\;

or xargs:

ls /tmp | xargs rm

Thanks, that helped! Though it took about half an hour to complete deletion. On a quad-core with 4 GB RAM.

There was a shitload of /tmp/509567493afdc67 and similar files. I don't have the slightest idea what application spewed these out. Hmmmm.

cheers,

Niki

if they come back, you can try something like lsof to see what process has the filehandle open.

I personally use
to keep things nice and neat.

6.4M /tmp

In addition to /dev/shm, you can also add a line to fstab to make your /tmp tmpfs and your /tmp will be cleared on reboot.

I'm sure you know that already, just sayin'

It´s an interesting matter. Can I suggest another possibilities?

1)Using /rc.d/rc.local_shutdown ( /usr/bin/find /tmp -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0r /bin/rm -rf )

http:ww.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/command-to-clean-tmp-at-shutdown-417547093//w4/


2)There are a pair of excellent Mr. Woodsman scripts. If you will use kde4 you should some adpatations, but it was used a lot in kde3.


And tmpfs has memory quantity questions, insn´t ?