RE: Hints for newbie (was: Volari-XP Display Driver)

["John Morfit (VA/NQL)" <john morfit ericsson com>]

I have an app complaining that my /tmp directory is too small. I have /dev/hdc9 mounted on /tmp, sized to 101 MB. I do have some 15 GB of free (unpartitioned) disk space.

What is my best method of increasing /tmp space?
a) Resize the /dev/hdc9 partition with
	Disk Druid? How do you start Disk Druid?
	fdisk?
	parted? "parted hdc1 resize /tmp"
b) Go back to WinXP and resize with
	fips?
	Partition Commander?
c) change the /tmp directory to another partition with more available space (rob Peter to pay Paul). For instance, /usr has 6 GB available.

I can see that 3 processes are using /tmp: gdm-binary, gconfd-2, and gam_server.
Killing them causes a reboot, which restarts the 3 processes. How can I umount /tmp for the resize?

Thanks,
/John

-----Original Message-----
From: John Morfit (VA/NQL) 
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:50 AM
To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux'
Subject: Hints for newbie (was: Volari-XP Display Driver)


> A hint:  While looking at the GUI screen, "CTRL-ALT-F1" through
> "CTRL-ALT-F6" will get you to a standard text mode command line login.
> There are six of them and then correspond to the six virtual consoles.
> Also, while looking at the GUI screen, a "CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE" will
> restart the X system and return you to the GUI login.
> 
> When in one of the text-mode screens, holding down ALT and pressing F1
> through F6 will switch you between the virtual consoles.  And 
> since the
> GUI runs on virtual console 7, "ALT-F7" will return you to the GUI.
> Neat, eh?  Now you know more than you ever wanted to.
> 

Rick,
Damn fine! As they say downunda, goodonya mate!

Apparently, I can replace the video with an ATI or Nvidia. Just got to spend the $$.

/John