Ubuntu running out of tmp space
If you run Ubuntu and you suddenly discover that your /tmp is running out of space then open up /etc/mtab
sudo vi /etc/mtab
Look for the entry that defines /tmp and put it in comment.
#overflow /tmp tmpfs rw,size=1048576,mode=1777 0 0
Don’t forget to do a reboot afterwards.
Comment by jay — June 20, 2009 @ 19:09
THis does not work for me. Upon reboot, mtab has been rewritten to add the line again. According to some posts, the OS writes this file on reboot.
Comment by jeremy — July 7, 2009 @ 18:13
no worky for me either, this seems to be a known issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/285096