/tmp resizing (was RE: Hints for newbie)
John Morfit (VA/NQL)
john.morfit at ericsson.com
Thu Mar 31 16:01:53 UTC 2005
> 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
More information about the Redhat-install-list
mailing list