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tihi
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Sep 20, 2019

Weird rpm-tmp files are taking up too much space in /shared

Hi everyone,

We have a Viprion device with 2 guests on it. On one of them we keep getting this error:

011d0004:3: Disk partition /shared (slot 1) has only 15% free

Upon further investigating the /shared folder, we realized that the /shared/tmp folder is filled with almost 23 gigs of random tmp files, such as:

rpm-tmp.bw2ttL
rpm-tmp.BWk9SZ
rpm-tmp.BWLzYD
rpm-tmp.BXUvXL
rpm-tmp.BYAz3r
rpm-tmp.bYeToN
rpm-tmp.BYuy6l
rpm-tmp.bYyVMg

They are usually around 9-12 MB in size and there is a lot of them.

My questions are since I couldn't find any info on them:

What are these?

Can they be deleted?

Thanks in advance.

BIG-IP
files
LTM
security
tmp

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  • Dario_Garrido's avatar
    Dario_Garrido
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    Oct 02, 2019

    Hello Tihi.

    Those files are created as part of a Build RPM Package process.

    REF - https://linux.die.net/man/8/rpmbuild

    I share with you some other references:

    REF - https://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2003-September/msg00099.html

    REF - https://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2003-September/msg00100.html

    Example of execution

    $ rpmbuild -bb doc.spec
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.X07xhN
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/neo/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ANzKAA
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/neo/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ mkdir -p /home/neo/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/netkiller-1.0.1-1.x86_64
+ mkdir -p /home/neo/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/netkiller-1.0.1-1.x86_64/usr/share/doc/
+ exit 0

    Usually, those files are removed at the end of the packet construction. Why are they not being removed? actually I don't know. You should better open a support case.

    KR,

    Dario.

    • tihi's avatar
      tihi
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      Oct 03, 2019

      Hi,

       

      Thank you for your reply. I'll look into the references and open a support case.

       

      Thanks again.

       

      Br,

      Tihi

  • Brumik's avatar
    Brumik
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    Oct 13, 2021

    Hello,

    I am getting the same issue - rpm tmp files are created in /var/tmp each morning.

    Does anyone know what process is creating these and how to stop it?

    BR

    Chris