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/tmp Folder 100% Full in Linux – Complete Troubleshooting Guide for Linux & Oracle DBAs

- June 27, 2012

/tmp Folder 100% Full in Linux — Troubleshooting Guide Practical Linux and Oracle DBA guide to diagnose a full /tmp filesystem, identify the cause, safely recover space, and prevent the problem from recurring. Last Updated: September 2026 A 100% full /tmp filesystem can cause Linux applications, Oracle Database utilities, installers, patching tools, scripts, and other processes to fail when they cannot create temporary files. The correct solution is not simply to delete everything under /tmp . First determine whether the filesystem is full because of disk-space consumption, inode exhaustion, deleted files still held open by processes, or another filesystem-level condition. Important Oracle warning: If Oracle software is already installed, do not blindly remove /tmp/.oracle or /var/tmp/.oracle . Oracle's installation documentation specifically warns against removing these directories or their files after Oracle software installati...