re: /tmp resizing (was RE: Hints for newbie)

["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

I tried setting /etc/inittab runlevel to 3 and rebooting. Indeed, fuser does not show any users of /tmp. However, umount still complains that /tmp is busy. ???

Thanks,
/John