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5donuts

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Registered: 2014-11-06

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[Solved] /tmp size limitation?

Recently, I was playing around with shell scripts to automate the duplication of data on my arch machine, and I decided to copy the desired data to /tmp then compress it with tar, then put the compressed data where I store that kind of stuff and remove the copied data in /tmp

I encountered an error about halfway through the copying of data, where there was "no space left on disk". I found this to be particularly odd, since I have all of / mounted on the same partition with ~200GiB of free space when I was trying this out. I tried copying data to an external location and did not encounter the same error.

I guess I'm just wondering if /tmp has some sort of size limitation?

Last edited by 5donuts (2015-04-13 19:34:16)

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lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: [Solved] /tmp size limitation?

By default /tmp In Arch is mounted as tmpfs - which by default has the size equal to half the RAM.

5donuts

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Registered: 2014-11-06

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Re: [Solved] /tmp size limitation?

That would explain things, thanks!

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [Solved] /tmp size limitation?

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmpfs