Subject: Difficulties with Firefox/iceweasel

From: Alan McConnell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 13:05:34 -0400 (EDT)

During my experimentation with Iceweasel, described in another post, I
have received warnings from the OS that /tmp was filling up.  It seems
that when running a video a buffer is opened in /tmp, and /tmp fills up
rapidly.  At the moment, df /tmp tells me that 3% of /tmp is used.  When
I'm trying to play a video, only 1% of /tmp is available, and the video
grinds to a halt.

My partition table says that /tmp is partition 10, with 50MB, and partion
11 is my /home, with 750GB.  [  I don't know why I made my /tmp so small. ]

Now to my question.  Can anyone think of any hazard in the following
procedure:  1.  Back up my /home completely(I have a USB stick that will
take what I have on it.)  2.  Run parted to delete partitions 10 and 11,
then create a new partition 10, with, say, a Gig on it, and then create
a new partition 11, name it /home . . . 3.  Put all my backed up stuff
on the new /home.

I'll have to log in as root to do this, I'm sure.  But there may be other
hazards I am not aware of.  I hope for cogent thoughts on this.

TIA,

Alan

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From: Felix Miata <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 13:26:23 -0400

> hazards I am not aware of.  I hope for cogent thoughts on this.

There's no compulsion to have a separate partition for /tmp. Simply remove 
that small partition from /etc/fstab.

Those with more parted experience might simply remove partition 10 from the 
disk (and /etc/fstab), then resize 11 or 9 to include the space freed by 10. 
I'd more likely give it to 9 (your /var). Adding onto an end rather than a 
start feels safer to me.
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From: Alan McConnell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:48:05 -0400 (EDT)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Felix Miata" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 1:26:23 PM
Subject: Re: Difficulties with Firefox/iceweasel

There's no compulsion to have a separate partition for /tmp. Simply remove 
that small partition from /etc/fstab.
      Just did it, and rebooted.  And I set Beeth's Fifth to playing on
      youtube for five minutes -- of course there was no sound<sob> -- and
      I had no problems.

So thanks for your helpful and effective suggestion, Felix!

Alan