/tmp filling up

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 20:01:35 UTC 2007


On 2/13/07, Michel Salim <michel.salim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced their /tmp directory filling up with
> tmpXXXXXX.tmp files? It reliably occurs on two separate installs of F7
> I've done after several hours of usage, entirely filling up the
> partition (how I wished I'd put /tmp on a separate partition).
>
> Incidentally, what's the rule determining when the space reclaimed by
> deleting a file on a full partition is actually made available?
> Restarting does the trick, and sometimes logging out works as well.
>
> --
> Michel Salim
Yeah, I've seen this. I've tried to track this down without success.

The files seem to be copies of files: various modification times,
various types, various sizes. Hasn't been taking up much space on my
system though.....

tom
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Tom London




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