On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 09:05:19PM +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. There may be shell scripts that create files in /tmp, and then references them later in another part of the shell script. So the race conditions of just moving files from /tmp to /tmp-old are real, and non-trivial. Not to mention processes that cd into /tmp, etc. So scheduling downtime is the safest way to do things. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
