[KLUG Members] re: changing the size of tmp

Bruce Smith bruce at armintl.com
Tue Feb 7 10:52:55 EST 2006


> > Have a question that I am havng a hard time getting a answer for, both from Google and text book. How do you change the size of /tmp post installation? Running FC4 and need to change the size of the temp filesystem. 
> 
> (a) What kind of filesystem?  (b) Are you using LVM?
> 
> If (b) is no then the answer is probably that you can't.  

Unless you have unpartitioned disk space to turn into /tmp, or you plan
on adding a new hard drive, or you have an unused partition you wish to
turn into /tmp.

> If (b) is yes it depends on (a).

And that also assumes you have some free space to give to /tmp.

All this assumes you want to _increase_ the size of /tmp, not decrease.
You only said "change the size".

 - BS




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