[clue-tech] increase root part after install?

[chris fedde]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Michael J. Hammel
<mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 13:09 -0700, Will wrote:
>
>>   It is filling your root partition because it is compressing the file
>> three times and writing the compressed file to /tmp before deciding
>> which one is smallest and coping the smallest file to the directory
>> the original file was located in.
>
> Another option is to mount /tmp onto tmpfs (re: a ramdisk).  If you have
> lots of memory then this gives you a lot of extra space for temporary
> files while not accidentally using up space on the root partition.
> Also, some applications that write lots of data to temporary files can
> actually run faster if they use a tmpfs instead of /tmp on a disk.
>
> Drawbacks to mounting /tmp on a tmpfs:  What's in /tmp disappears on
> reboot every time.  Don't use it for long term storage.  Also, it
> reduces available memory for applications.   Can't remember if tmpfs is
> dynamically sized.  I think it is.  That could, potentially, also be a
> drawback.
>

A third option is to create a new partition and mount it as /tmp
A fourth option is to make /tmp a symbolic link to a directory on /home
   mkdir /home/tmp; mv /tmp/ /tmp.orig; ln -s /home/tmp /tmp

Be sure that you set the sticky bit on the new /tmp.