I already posted this issue on github ( https://github.com/vmware/photon/issues/32 ), but realize that since it is not necessarily a bug, I searched for a better venue and found this forum.
Hi folks, I was installing lattice on photon, which writes a lot of stuff to /tmp . However, in my default install of photon, /tmp is sized at 174M, and the lattice installer runs out of space in /tmp, despite my main partition having plenty of free space.
Changing the size of the /tmp directory did not seem to be as simple as changing /etc/fstab . Grepping around it seemed like maybe I could change /etc/mtabs , but the file was read-only, so I wasn't sure if it was auto-generated.
So two questions:
- why is the default for /tmp so small?
- what is the recommended route to change this?
thanks
