How to resize tmpfs without losing data
Definition from Wikipedia: tmpfs is a temporary file storage paradigm implemented in many Unix-like operating systems. It is intended to appear as a mounted file system, but data is stored in volatile memory instead of a persistent storage device. A similar construction is a RAM disk, which appears as a virtual disk drive and hosts a disk file system.
To resize tmpfs without lose any data, remount it instead of umount tmpfs and mount it again. Increasing and decreasing the size is also possible.
The syntax:
mount -o remount,size=new_size /path/to/tmpfs
Real life examples:
mount -o remount,size=500M /tmp
mount -o remount,size=2G /var/log
If you have more data on tmpfs than you are trying to set a limit to, an error message appear:
mount point not mounted or bad option.
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