[ale] /tmp directory full!!

[mark]

Yep, I flushed it manually ..rm -rf /tmp/*.  What has my curiosity up, why
isn't the /tmp being flushed?  And, I really thought rebooting would flush
it, but it didn't??  Is it possible I've got something mischievous running
in /tmp??


----- Original Message -----
From: "cfowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] /tmp directory full!!


> One idea is to make tmp its own fs so it does not fill root.
>
> Maybe it is possible to have mount -a mount a loop device as  /tmp
>
> #1) Create a blank file somewhere for tmp
>     dd if=/dev/zero of=/etc/tmp.fs bs=1024k count=100
>
> 2) Mount the file
>     losetup /dev/loop0 /etc/tmp.fs
>     mount /dev/loop0 /tmp
>
> Maybe someone here would know an fstab entry that iwll automagically do
> #2
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 10:17, mark wrote:
> > Has anyone had /tmp fill up a partition?  Even after rebooting /tmp
remains full??  Thanks,  Mark
>
>
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