/tmp directory = HUGE

ryan.n · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

Just tried downloading something from a website and firefox tells me I am out of disk space. I checked my hard drive and it says i have 8.8mb left! I thought this must be a mistake since yesterday I had 10GB left and it couldn't have gone that fast... so I started checking directories to see if there were any enormous files that I could delete. Then I checked the tmp directory. It's size was 7.4GB.

Why?...How?...What can I do to delete this stuff?

DarrenM · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:25 am Post subject:

su -
rm -rf /tmp/*

ryan.n · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

awesome. thanks.

I guess what LiVES doesn't tell you is that it makes a *.ppm file in the tmp folder for EVERY FRAME of the video you are editing. 30,000 ppm files...in my tmp folder.

ryan.n · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

it gave me an error when i did rm -rf /tmp/* so I did rm -rf /tmp instead which screwed up some stuff. any suggestions on what to do?

Maedhros · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:42 am Post subject:

polle · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1498 Location: Belgium

You can use tmpwatch:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=202060&highlight=tmpwatch