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http://chakra-project.org – Hello everyone ,I open this topic because I have faced a critical problem with /tmp several times. my /tmp was full, so any program that needed to write a temporary file could not be executed. (even bash with bash-completion)the problem is that /tmp is a temporary file system monted at boot time with /etc/fstab :tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0And the free space available in /tmp is determined at mount time, and it is half of the RAM.in my case, I have 4G of RAM so /tmp has 2G of free space.but now, if you use some bundles like firefox of chrome, they will go to /tmp/c (HowTos)

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Submitted by Edward.H on 01/07/2013 – Made popular on 01/07/2013

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When trying to install the game torchlight, I encountered an error because of too few available space.

my problem is that the cdrom is listed properly in /etc/mtab file but not in /etc/fstab file.

mtab contents:

/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0 none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0 none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0 none /dev devtmpfs rw,

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The problem started when I switched to systemd.This is my /proc/mounts:rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 dev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1551160k,nr_inodes=216763,mode=755 0 0 run /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755 0 0 /dev/sda5 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0 securityfs /sys/kernel/

Umm, I think you're generally encouraged to mount /tmp as tmpfs (which is kept in ram) which you can do from your fstab with a line like this; tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0

George https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=48698

2012-08-26T22:18:29Z

Any idea how I can merge two file systems on Debain 6? If that's too difficult I'm ok with resizing them, but how? I would like to increase the size of /dev/sda1 and make /dev/sda1 instead smaller.

lxdm log file full of errors 48 weeks 1 day ago

stefanwelte wrote:Same problem here. As my root partition only has 250 MB of free space and though gets full to the brim within a few hours, i have to solve this error or find a workaround.As a workaround, you could mount /var/log as tmpfs.

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sudo apt-get install ruby1.8

output:

W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/ E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

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output of mount

/dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,erro

# # /etc/fstab: static file system information## <file system>    <dir>    <type>    <options>    <dump>    <pass>tmpfs        /tmp    tmpfs    nodev,nosuid    0    0# UUID=c9d457b4-4976-4103-909c-08716b9c63d3/dev/sda3          &