Hi all,

Using slack12 I am coming up against a strange issue with not having enough /tmp space.

I tried to install the openoffice3.0.1 autobuilder and it failed because I did not have enough /tmp freespace (Open Office needed 1100mb and my system only had 500mb /tmp freespace).

(BTW, I also have 1GB of physical memory and a 1GB swap partition in this system).


My fstab line originally read as:

So in an attempt to increase /tmp space, I created a new separate 2GB xfs partition at /dev/hda8, and adjusted my fstab to read:

But after rebooting, my system still only has 500mb of /tmp space available on the new 2GB partition?


FSTAB contents:


Mount command shows:

df /mnt/tmp reports:

Does anyone know where this 500mb limitation is coming from?, and how can I increase /tmp space to 2GB?


Thanks in advance for any assistance.



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Don't use tmpfs on a disk partition - remove that altogether.

Hi syg00,

Thanks for your response.

Can I ask more about your response... is tmpfs bad, what is it's purpose?

Also, will I have any negative system effects by removing tmpfs? (does anything need it?).

Thanks

That's from the tmpfs.txt file in your source tree.
By default it will be half your (RAM) memory size, as you found out - that can be enlarged, but can cause swap/page issues. Makes no sense for a physical (disk) parition.
On-disk /tmp will be a little slower, but you can make it whatever size you like.

Yes - as said tmpfs is a virtual filesystem loaded in memory. Your entry in fstab showing the device is getting confused as you tell it it's a tmpfs system This will default to half of your memory. If you want to use the portion of disk you partitioned then then change your fstab entry to :

Just from what I know...

You don't really need a separate partition for tmp and tmpfs is usually used by livecd distributions in Run-from-RAM mode. So, to suggest another alternative, just create /tmp in your root partition (I thought this is the default install?) and remove that tmp entry from your fstab.

cheers.

Hi syg00, bgeddy and lordwolf,

Thanks for all your very helpful and instructional responses

I have removed the 'offending' fstab entry and after re-booting; was successfully able to create the openoffice autobuild package, so very happy.

Cheers very much

Remember to check your /tmp directory from time to time. If you build a lot of packages, a lot of junk can accumulate there and take up space. So clean out /tmp now and then to free up space.

From what I remember, the default maximum size for 'tmpfs' is half of installed physical ram.

This can be changed by adding 'size=xxxx' to the entry in 'fstab'.

Bill.