Increasing the size of /tmp

By | October 25, 2009

If you reach the limit of /tmp, an easy was to fix this is to create a symbolic link and to map /tmp to a partition with more space.

1. Quit all running applications
2. Become super user: #su – root
3. Delete the content from /tmp: #rm -r /tmp
4. Create the symbolic link: # ln -s /larger_partition/tmp /tmp
5. Give full access to /larger_partition/tmp: #chmod 777 /larger_partition/tmp
Restart your applications.
Cheers,

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