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overflow 1.0M 1.0M 0 100% /tmp
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Reference when executing df -hl shows /tmp is mounted on overflow :

overflow          1.0M  1.0M     0 100% /tmp

If your “/tmp” mount on a linux filesystem is mounted as overflow (often sized at 1MB), this is likely due to you not specifying “/tmp” as its own partition and your root filesystem filled up and “/tmp” was remounted as a fallback. To fix this after you’ve cleared space, just unmount the fallback and it should remount at its original point:

sudo umount overflow

If you get device is busy you can use sudo umount -l overflow

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