An arbitrarily sized /tmp does not fit all

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/20/2012 11:46 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 12/20/2012 09:03 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>> For whatever reason Anaconda generates a separate file system for /tmp
>> using an arbitrary size.  One one machine it is about 4GB, causing
>> Brasero
>> to fail on larger jobs.  Meanwhile there is some 30GB unused in the root
>> filesystem.
>>
>> If /tmp is no longer part of / then its size should be easily adjustable.
>>
>
> File a bug against brasero since it should be using /var/tmp these days...

This means playing with symptoms. The fix is to disable /tmp on tmpfs.

/tmp on tmpfs lacks generality and will only work in a limited subset of 
installations.

Ralf