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. > If users are expecting that files stick around > in /tmp, that's huge cultural problem, and it will come back to haunt > you in multiple ways.... Yep, I like keeping /tmp on tmpfs, which is what it says it is... -jf _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
