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How to resize /tmp/tmpDSK to 1Gb

Sizes does matter!

# umount -l /tmp
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/tmpDSK bs=1024 count=1024000
# mkfs.ext3 /usr/tmpDSK
# mount -o loop,rw,noexec,nosuid /usr/tmpDSK /tmp

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  • techno182 on Friday, December 25, 2009

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