/tmp problem in Fedora

[afonic]

Today I wanted to do a few test builds in Fedora and I got about the same error message in every build I tried:

hda2: write failed, user block limit reached.
tools/convconf.c:215: fatal error: error closing /tmp/ccEkK7MX.s: Disk quota exceeded
compilation terminated.

and

hda2: write failed, user block limit reached.
addrcache.cc:746: fatal error: error writing to /tmp/ccRUC2TO.s: Disk quota exceeded
compilation terminated.

Both for 2 different programs. (psyBNC and ezbounce, also tried eggdrop)

I didn't have the time to try and find out what this error message means, but I post it here as a heads up as I think there might be a general problem with access to /tmp dir in Fedora.

[zoli]

hello,

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Disk quotas for user afonic (uid 36679):
     Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
      /dev/hda2    4940       0    5000               2       0     500
      /dev/hdd1    2392       0  100000             278       0    5000


I have recreated the quotas and raised user quota to 100M.
Seems your /var partition reached the quota limit because you have about 5M mail in you mailbox.

We can solve the problem:
1. during compile use tmp in your home
2. delete some old mail
3. raise /var quota.

Do we really need higher quota on /var where just mail and databases are located?

[afonic]

Yes, you're right!

I have never used my polarhome email address so I didn't think of that, but appears some forgotten cron job was sending notices. As a result I had over 3000 messages in my inbox.