On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:01:45PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > > /tmp 1 Gig > > Too big 250MB > > Don't some programs use /tmp to store in-progress downloads, and thus > would have problems if /tmp weren't big enough? Say, for example, I was > downloading a 600MB ISO image. Wouldn't /tmp have to be at least that > big for the download to succeed? I remember having problems with this on > a Red Hat 6.2 system where /tmp was only 100 MB. I suppose one could > avoid this by setting TMPDIR or whatever environment variable where the > downloader expects to find a temporary pathname. > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb9 242M 6.5M 223M 3% /tmp
Is mine. /tmp is a hangover, and a security problem, and is much less used I believe than fornerly. Cliff
