How do I change a partition mount point from /tmp ?

**jocko** · September 2nd, 2009

Originally Posted by Bucky Ball

jocko, why is it then that when OP comments out the /tmp entry in fstab, his machine stalls at boot with an error message, he removes and all is good?

Beats me. But I don't have any line for /tmp in my fstab, have never had one, and my computer boots just fine.

Perhaps the /tmp folder that was previously just used as a mount point for the partition has the wrong permissions, so it can't work as a real /tmp?

**rbc** · September 3rd, 2009

freeicetime,
you are clearly getting much better advice from Bucky Ball and jocko, so I will bow out, but to answer your question, there is nothing wrong with swap being on sda5 and /home being on sda7. That is exactly what I would expect, however, your fstab clearly has these partitions the other way around.

# /dev/sda5
UUID=488e312f-dd1e-40fb-b90b-24265e70c98f /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda6
UUID=de7a43f2-41b6-42ad-a6c0-e759096b3075 /tmp ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda7
UUID=af56cc8b-a392-4589-bbc2-3a1054187a02 none swap sw 0 0

**bear24rw** · September 3rd, 2009

if you got some RAM to spare you should just through /tmp on a ramdisk.. add this line to /etc/fstab

Code:

tmpfs		/tmp		tmpfs	defaults,noatime,mode=1777	0	0

**freeicetime** · September 3rd, 2009

Wow, thanks for all the advice everyone! This is a lot to go thru for me and I'm just about to head out of town for an extended labour-day weekend. I won't have a chance to try out your suggestions until I get back but I'll post my results as soon as I have some to report.

talk to you next week.

Thanks again!
Freeicetime

**Bucky Ball** · September 3rd, 2009

Have a good one! rbc's post #11 looks promising.

**egalvan** · September 3rd, 2009

type this in a terminal, and post the output

Code:

sudo blkid

this will give us some more drive info.

**BartVS** · January 27th, 2012

I ran into the same problem as freeicetime, a program requiring more tmp space than I had on my tmp partition. (Using Ubuntu 10.04, 1GB tmp partition with 3% usage before I run the program)

Simply commenting the /tmp mount line in /etc/fstab resulted in
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exit code 256
when X was trying to start.

Turns out permissions on /tmp changed from
drwxrwxrwt /tmp (when my tmp partition was mounted)
to
drwxr-xr-w /tmp (when no longer mounting anything on /tmp)

I fixed this doing

Code: