/tmp resizing (was RE: Hints for newbie)

[John Morfit (VA/NQL)]

> > 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
> 
I used lsof to discover that xfs has a font file open (/tmp/.font-unix/fs7100).

/J