Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp

[jason]

Dragoncrest wrote:

>     I've got a sight problem I need help with.  Trying to install 
> WolfET on my Freebsd workstation and it requires something like 286 
> megs of free space on /tmp.  My /tmp is only 256.  So I'm kinda sunk.  
> Any way I can enlarge this short of a complete wipe and repartition of 
> the drive?  Or can I temporarily mount another drive to /tmp, install 
> the game, then umount/mount back to what it was?  I know I probubly 
> should have made my /tmp 512megs, but when I was originally installing 
> this box I didn't think about that at the time.  Is there a way to 
> work around this problem or am I kinda screwed in general?
>
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That is easy.  Type man mdmfs for details, the quick explaination is to 
make a memory file system and mount it at /tmp.  After a reboot or 
unmounting the mfs is gone without a trace and /tmp was the way it was 
before, also if there are files in /tmp before you start they disappear 
after a mounting and reapear after unmounting.  So this should do it:

$mdmfs -s 512m md /tmp

a 512MB swap backed file system mounted at /tmp.
jason