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Increase the size of /tmp (/usr/tmpDSK) partition in Linux?

Sat, 04/10/2010 - 23:06 |

donie

How to increase the size of /tmp partition in Linux?
Proceed with the given steps:-
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1) Stop httpd and mysqld service and process kill the tailwatchd process (CPanel uses this).

[root@antg ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld stop

Stopping MySQL: [ OK ]

[root@antg ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd stop

Stopping httpd: [ OK ]

[root@antg ~]# pstree -p | grep tailwatchd

Find the tailwatchd process id and kill it

[root@antg ~]# kill -9 2522

2) Take a backup of /tmp as /tmp.bak

[root@localhost ~]#cp -prf /tmp /tmp.bak