Temporary files directory

daniele pendenza · External Since: Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 3

Hi all,

currently I have a system-wide tmp directory, that has its own partition
- let's name it K - on the disk.
The K size is 1.5 GB. Unfortunately I found that it is too small for my
purposes because it is used as a working directory of many programs
-including the file roller.
- What size do you recommend for a desktop system ?
- Is it possible to redirect the actual temporary directory to another
directory ? I mean tell the system to use another temporary directory -
not the /tmp ?

cheers,

daniele

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Michael Wagner · External Since: Jul 24, 2007 Posts: 1

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:06:13AM +0200, daniele pendenza wrote:

> - Is it possible to redirect the actual temporary directory to another
> directory ? I mean tell the system to use another temporary directory - not
> the /tmp ?

Hello Daniele,

look at "man bash" and search for TMPDIR. When you set this variable it
does what you want.

Bye Michael

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Basile STARYNKEVITCH · External Since: Jul 24, 2007 Posts: 1

daniele pendenza wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> currently I have a system-wide tmp directory, that has its own partition
> - let's name it K - on the disk.
> The K size is 1.5 GB. Unfortunately I found that it is too small for my
> purposes because it is used as a working directory of many programs
> -including the file roller.
> - What size do you recommend for a desktop system ?
It really depends of your usage. I recommend not having /tmp in a separate partition
(but share space with / & /var) on a desktop or a laptop.
Otherwise, spoil a lot of space for /tmp (eg 5 to 10Gb).

> - Is it possible to redirect the actual temporary directory to another
> directory ? I mean tell the system to use another temporary directory -
> not the /tmp ?

tempnam(3) and other programs uses the TMPDIR environment variable.
But some functions/programs don't use it.

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andy · External Since: Oct 27, 2006 Posts: 8

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:29:08AM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:06:13AM +0200, daniele pendenza wrote:
>
> > - Is it possible to redirect the actual temporary directory to another
> > directory ? I mean tell the system to use another temporary directory - not
> > the /tmp ?
>
> Hello Daniele,
>
> look at "man bash" and search for TMPDIR. When you set this variable it
> does what you want.

as a note, the TMPDIR variable can be set automatically with the
libpam-tmpdir package:
ii libpam-tmpdir 0.07-1 automatic per-user temporary directories

andy

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Stefan Monnier · External Since: Mar 31, 2005 Posts: 79

> currently I have a system-wide tmp directory, that has its own partition -
> let's name it K - on the disk.
> The K size is 1.5 GB. Unfortunately I found that it is too small for my
> purposes because it is used as a working directory of many
> programs -including the file roller.

Then you should report a bug to the file-roller developers.

Stefan

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