On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:36:52AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I am trying to install StarOffice on a laptop running Debian 2.2. I
> have run into a problem in that StarOffice needs to utilize the /tmp
> directory and there doesn't seem to be enough space for it. I don't have
> anything in there taking up the space, it seems that the problem is that the
> directory just isn't big enough. So, I thought, "OK, I will symlink the /tmp
> directory to another directory" but I am having trouble. On the computer in
> question, /tmp is off of the root partition (/dev/hda5). It appears that
> Debian won't allow me to symlink the /tmp directroy to someplace else. I
> tried:
> ln -s /usr/local /tmp
> But that didn't work. That simulates the /usr/local directory as a
> directory inside (ie: /tmp/local/
You need to remove /tmp first, so:
rm -r -f /tmp
ln -s /usr/local /tmp
chmod 1777 /usr/local
chown root.root /usr/local
And that's all. But remember which permissions and owners did you had
in /usr/local to be able to recover them later.
Hope it's useful,
Bye!
> What I need is /tmp=/usr/local but when I type:
> ln -s /usr/local /
> Debian won't let me do that. Any suggestions for making more space for /tmp?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan Walton
>
>
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