How to specify a temporary folder with more disk space via terminal?

Question

I need more disk space at /tmp and /usr folders. How will achieve this?

An error appeared:

root@kali:/home/Downloads# ./netbeans-8.1-linux.sh
Configuring the installer...
Cannot create temporary directory /tmp/.nbi-5055107.tmp

Hi Morpheus, did you see the duplicate link that was posted on your other question ? It addresses resizing /tmp — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, May 06 '16 at 02:11
to @Mohit Rajan: < How can specify a temporary folder with sufficient disk space via terminal? > This question is not duplicate. — Morpheus, May 06 '16 at 14:41
It's not a duplicate because /tmp is not necessarily a separate partition. Serg's answer does not appear in the supposed duplicate question. — wjandrea, May 06 '16 at 19:05
@wjandrea the actual duplicate is indeed different - I've already mentioned that post in my answer — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, May 06 '16 at 19:12
What's your current partitioning scheme? Can you please include the output of lsblk, and sudo parted -l in your question? — David Foerster, May 06 '16 at 22:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

There's couple of ways you can go about this:

sudo umount /tmp
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=16777216,mode=1777 overflow /tmp

That will give you 16 MB in/mpt . Adjust size= to how much you need

$ mktemp -d -p $HOME                                                 
/home/xieerqi/tmp.zrBHbp0Yt0

That will make temporary directory in your $HOME folder, that means you can use as much space as you need

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