On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 21:05 +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > On 2006-08-13, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Not without rebooting, but probably it will required scheduled > > downtime where you kick all of the users off, and then recreate the > > tmp directory --- either using rsync, or just doing a plain old "rm > > -rf /tmp; mkdir /tmp". > > Shouldn't require downtime if you do a quick: > > mv /tmp /tmp-old ; mkdir --mode=1777 /tmp > > Plus maybe moving the file from /tmp-old/ to /tmp/... and /tmp-old can be > deleted as soon as no processes accessing it. Check with fuser/lsof. > It is my experience that if you are logged in in gnome an essential file is being used in /tmp. So the above should be done in init level 3 if at all. -- ======================================================================= The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. -- Mark Twain ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list