Summary: expand /tmp

From: Haydee Y. Ching (haydee@adtex.com.ph)
Date: Thu Nov 25 1999 - 23:18:34 CST


--thanks a lot for those lots of replies.
Specially to:
     TzeWong<mongki_tze@yahoo.com>
     saddler@wwa.com
     ray trzaska<rtrzaska@uk.mdis.com>
     Victor Churchill<vic@netfixer.net>
     Baurjan Ismagulov<ibr@gantek.com.tr>
     domahony@csc.com
     Scott, Alan(ISD)<Allan Scott@ScottishPower.plc.uk>
     martin@stavanger.geoquest.slb.com
     Thiyagarajan V<thiyagu@siptech.co.in>
     Bertrand_Hutin@notes.amdahl.com
     singer@redbrick.dcu.ie
     James Kwong<kwong@solar.acast.nova.edu>
     Tim Carlson<tim@santafe.edu>
     Qi Chen<qchen@insight.jpl.nasa.gov>

the answer is to use mkfile and swap commands as in:
   $ mkfile 500M /export/swapfile1.swap
   $ swap -a /export/swapfile1.swap

my original question:
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hi, everyone,
i have installed netscape and i am running out of disk space now.........
wht can i do to expand the /tmp directory? when i install this, i have
partitioned it into 2. so, i still have 1 MB free disk space..........

below is the result...........
# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 483151 245404 189432 57% /
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6 461261 271532 143603 66% /usr
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4 385352 9267 337550 3% /var
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 385352 9 346808 1% /export
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5 770722 38015 678757 6% /opt
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 385352 216891 129926 63% /usr/openwin
swap 8308 8084 224 98% /tmp
# Nov 25 14:45:05 haydee last message repeated 14 times
Nov 25 14:48:12 haydee /usr/dt/bin/ttsession[374]: fork1(): Not enough
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