Subject: Re: help...
To: Tom Swiss <tms@tis.com>
From: Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/22/1996 07:46:40
In message <199602161629.LAA09962@ziggy.tis.com>, Tom Swiss writes:
>
> Can't help you with your first question, but for your second:
>
> >An another problem: How can I make bigger the /tmp directory?
> >Some programs which use it are cancelled with "file system full".
>
> I made a /usr/tmp directory and symlinked /tmp to it.
>
> [ziggy 52] ls -ld /usr/tmp
> drwxrwxrwx 3 root 35 512 Feb 15 15:04 /usr/tmp/
> [ziggy 53] ls -ld /tmp
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Feb 9 13:13 /tmp@ -> /usr/tmp
>
> Never had any problem.
If you do this, just keep in mind that /usr/tmp will be emptied at each
reboot. Also, the daily script's clean routines maintain a longer lifetime
for /usr/tmp files (7 days) than /tmp files (3 days). For that reason,
some people want to these directories separate.