On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:55:27PM -0500, Michel Salim wrote: > >> Has anyone else experienced their /tmp directory filling up with > >> tmpXXXXXX.tmp files? It reliably occurs on two separate installs of F7 > >> I've done after several hours of usage, entirely filling up the > >> partition (how I wished I'd put /tmp on a separate partition). > >Many programs respect the environment variables TMP and/or TMPDIR; try > >setting that to a bigger directory (I use ~/tmp for my personal stuff, and > >then I also run tmpwatch on that directory from my user crontab). > That won't help on a laptop -- / normally has about 10 GB free space, > and it would entirely fill up once this bug triggers. I don't think it > matters how much space you have free. Okay, but you could put it to a smaller separate partition, fulfilling your wish above. > Hmm. That narrows it down a bit - the culprit must be something that > is run automatically when GNOME starts. I'll cook up something that > will watch for a large file in /tmp and then find its owner. lsof. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
