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I'm running Fedora 25 on a VirtualBox VM with 4GB of RAM. I need to increase the size of the /tmp folder, but I do not see any entry in /etc/fstab for that folder. Is is possible to increase the size of /tmp?

Dave F
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    Note that /tmp is mounted as tmpfs on Fedora. tmpfs by default makes use of 50% of your RAM. But you can increase the size with a mount option, either as a percent value or a value in bytes. Now, it depends on why you are trying to increase the amount of /tmp or how many space you need. Maybe the source problem is not related to the size of /tmp? – Thomas Jun 03 '17 at 12:34
  • The option to update the Maven remote repository index in IntelliJ IDEA errors out with an out of space message. I was able to work around it by telling it to use a folder on the hard drive. – Dave F Jun 03 '17 at 13:29
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    I think in that case, it is better to not use /tmp but as you already did use a different location. – Thomas Jun 03 '17 at 13:30
  • The suggested duplicate should answer the question as stated, but the correct solution to the underlying problem is that given by @Thomas: don’t use /tmp for Maven. – Stephen Kitt Jun 03 '17 at 15:28

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