Hello,

I have a server running Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. The /tmp is on a on a separate 2TB drive and is showing 94% full. Users are complaining they don't have enough space. They have a request to increase the space but I'm not really sure how to do this or even if it's possible based on the setup. I've done a Google search and seen processes where people increase /tmp but I'm not sure if this is along the same lines or not. I've attached a picture showing the disk layout and usage. Any help in clarifying how this works would be greatly appreciated.

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Users shouldn't be out of space with 200G left. I take it the space is actual space, not bad blocks, inodes, directories, etc.

I don't know your situation, but what needs so much space in /tmp? How can anyone find a file in 1.6T of /tmp files? If there's directories there, you can symlink stuff to another partition Add another partition, mount it, slide stuff off tmp into your new partition and then put a symlink in /tmp pointing at the new directory.

My instinctive reaction would be to install order on guys spewing drivel into /tmp and overfilling it, but that's the parent in me

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Well, my first thought would be to stop and install a current version of Ubuntu. 14.04 has been end-of-life since 2019...and it's now 2021. You are behind on patches/security fixes, so a fresh install/restore-from-backup would let you repartition things easily.

Second thought: you don't have a /home mounted anywhere...so I'm assuming that your users actually have their home directories in /tmp??? Why on earth would they be there? And the /view partition would make me question what this server does. As business_kid said, what are the users doing in /tmp in the first place?? That server is EOL, so now would be an excellent time to rebuild it, in my opinion.

Given the price of drives, grabbing new ones wouldn't be a bad thing...shove the old ones into external enclosures so you can copy data over later if needed. Do a fresh install, and put /home on its own drive (or partition).

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/tmp is full?

Reboot, it's supposed to be volatile data.

Or check what's in there first.

The question is what are your users doing with temp. I assume this is a ext filesystem and you can gain some space by reducing reserved space to 1% or even zero as a short term fix.

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Time to run tmpwatch.