re-sizing /tmp .... possible?

[thermin]

Hi
I am administering a Mandrake 7.1 system, and it seems to be having alot of problems with the /tmp dir getting full.

Programs like sendmail error out with a not enough space message.

There's still plenty of room on the / partition, so I am curious if there is a way to make the /tmp larger.

BTW.... Is 'df' different on Linux than on FreeBSD? The reson I ask is because when I run 'df /tmp' on FreeBSD I get something like:
/dev/da0s1a 99183 57314 63% /
which is right.

Where as the same command in Mandrake gives me the overall results for / not for /tmp:
/dev/hda1 3.4G 2.4G 790M 76% /

Thanks
Clint G

[Strike]

Do you have a separate partition for /tmp? If so, then df will display it. I don't even know if you can do df /tmp, but you might be able to. Try just plain old df, and it should show all filesystems (df = display filesystems).

[thermin]

No, /tmp is under /.

The machine (which I didn't do the install on) has a / partition (3.4G) and a /data partition (12G).


I would just like to know how to allow more data to be stored in /tmp.

Clint G