Insufficient system storage

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 19 March 2006 17:36, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 13:54 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 March 2006 13:07, Tim wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 12:49 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > It looks as though I ought to have a separate partition for /tmp.  I
> > > > need help, though, to add it at this point.
> > >
> > > Look at your fstab file, and create a /tmp mountpoint in a similar way
> > > to other ones.  You mount a partition onto a /tmp directory, the
> > > partition (or you can use an entire drive), can come from anywhere.
> > >
> > > e.g. /dev/hda3   /tmp   ext3    defaults,noexec,nodev   1 2
> >
> > Will the old /tmp be quietly ignored when I reboot?
>
> The old /tmp is part of the / filesystem.   Existing files will be
> hidden by mounting over it.
>
> See my earlier post on how to free the space and my recommendations on
> the sequence to use for properly doing this without rebooting nor losing
> space.
>
Got it, Jeff, thanks.  There is only about 200KB usage in there at the moment, 
but I'll still get rid of them the way you suggest.

Anne
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