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/dev/shm gets out of space

I use a SUSE 10.0 system as a build machine. The output is an ISO file. Everything has work great until just recently. When I build, my /dev/shm gets out of space. I clean it before I build, but I still get problems with it. What can I do to fix the problem? Is it possible to resize it? I had an idea I could make a soft link to some other place. How do I do that? THe temporary directories that are created here have rather random names. How do I handle that?

> df -h
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tmpfs 1010M 1010M 0 100% /dev/shm
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/dev/fstab:

/dev/hda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda4 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,
nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid
,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0

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# mount
/dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/hda4 on /home type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/hdc on /media/dvdrecorder type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)