Problem with /tmp

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 21:29 +0100, bill purvis wrote:
> I've recently upgraded to Hardy, then had an update which replaced the
> kernel, modules etc. What I didn't realise was that the upgrades leave
> earlier kernels, modules etc around. As a result my / partition has got
> rather full. This became obvious when gcc said that a temporary file
> hit the 'no space on device' error. I have since cleared out the older
> stuff, and there's a reasonable amount of space on /, but df reports
> that /tmp is now mounted on 'overflow' whatever that is. This appears
> to be a 1meg filesystem, presumably in ram. Gcc still reports no
> space on device. Any way out, other than rebooting?

Very odd.  You could try unmounting /tmp.  This may fail because
processes may have open file descriptors pointing to files in the
mounted /tmp.  If this fails a reboot may be your only recourse.
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