[server-admins] what's left on root?

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> writes:
>> You might consider moving /tmp to minimize writes.

> If the machine has plenty of RAM you could consider making /tmp a
> separate tmpfs filesystem.

[charcoal at www ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:       33082196 kB
MemFree:        14833080 kB

That's plenty of memory to change /tmp and /var/tmp to tmpfs:

tmpfs	/tmp		tmpfs	defaults	0 0
tmpfs	/var/tmp	tmpfs	defaults	0 0