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Nimbostratus

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 investigat...

Noctilucent

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.