(SOLVED) no space left in /tmp

bicyclingrevolution · 2011-12-03 22:33:24

My KDE system began running into a brick wall today. I found Dolphin is reporting /tmp as using all of it's 1 GB size. As far as I know, /tmp is on the same partition. The Beginners Guide says /tmp is normally cleared when the system is booting, but that is not happening. I deleted the files I could without using root, and that fixed the problems. How do I keep this from happening?

Last edited by bicyclingrevolution (2011-12-04 02:01:57)

graysky · 2011-12-03 22:38:28

bleachbit ?

sudo bleachbit --clean system.cache system.localizations system.trash system.tmp

jjacky · 2011-12-03 22:47:07

well, if you want your /tmp to be empty at each boot, a simple solution I guess could be to keep it in memory (i.e. use tmpfs in your fstab) instead of putting it on a disk/mounting a partition.

graysky · 2011-12-03 22:55:18

jjacky wrote:

well, if you want your /tmp to be empty at each boot, a simple solution I guess could be to keep it in memory (i.e. use tmpfs in your fstab) instead of putting it on a disk/mounting a partition.

This is the distro default...

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
tmpfs		/tmp	tmpfs	nodev,nosuid	0	0

jjacky · 2011-12-04 00:03:23

oh, my bad. Although he did say it's not happening for him (/tmp isn't empty/cleared on boot), so i guess one could assume he's got things set up differently....

bicyclingrevolution · 2011-12-04 00:07:06

Here's what I have:

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sdb1 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 /media/Arch ext4 defaults 0 1
/root/swap swap swap defaults 0 0

So it should be mounting tmp to ram, right? But for some reason it's not. I should have plenty of ram to do this--2 GB and a 4 GB swapfile.
Also, if it was mounted in ram, would I be able to view it with a file manager?
Bleachbit worked well: /tmp is now 1% full. But I would like to keep maintenance down if at all possible.

graysky · 2011-12-04 00:11:55

Tmpfs is 1/2 physical memory so 1 G is right. You should be able to access /tmp via the file manager or the shell. Bleachbit is your friend. Bind an alias to it and call it after every pacman -Syu you run. See my .bashrc on my githut (link in sig) for an example.

bicyclingrevolution · 2011-12-04 00:33:38

Sounds good, but do I need to install bleachbit-cli to use it from the terminal? I tried to install it and it said it would have to remove bleachbit, and I would like to have both options.
Running bleachbit as user worked, but when I tried it as root it failed because root cannot connect to X server :0

 $ sudo bleachbit --clean system.trash
No protocol specified
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
info: starting BleachBit version 0.9.1
warning: cannot find GPLv3 license text file
debug: makedirs(/root/.config/bleachbit)
debug: makedirs(/root/.config)
debug: chown(/root/.config, uid=1000)
note: chown for path /root aborted
debug: chown(/root/.config/bleachbit, uid=1000)
note: chown for path /root aborted
debug: chown(/root/.config/bleachbit/bleachbit.ini, uid=1000)
note: chown for path /root aborted
info: automatically preserving language 'en'
debug: clean_operation('system'), options = '['trash']'
Disk space recovered: 0
Files deleted: 0

graysky · 2011-12-04 00:36:55

No, either package works from the shell. the -cli package doesn't have all the pygtk deps as the main package. It is for light-weight systems without gtk. You need to run it as root or install sudo and give your users sudo rights to run it.

bicyclingrevolution · 2011-12-04 00:53:55

Thank you! I looked at sudo configuration again, realized I needed to uncomment a line, and now bleachbit works perfectly. Thanks for the .bashrc file, too, those aliases will make administering things much easier.

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(SOLVED) no space left in /tmp

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