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.
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