First of all: check out the "df" command. Then check out "mount". Both
have manpages which should be on every newbie's reading list.
Chances are, yes, /tmp is a separate partition, but it's easy to see for
yourself.
Meanwhile, I don't use xcdroast much but can't it be configured to
extract to someplace other than /tmp?
HTH,
-michael
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:36:24PM -0800, Richard Otte wrote:
> I recently discovered that /tmp on my machine is rather small, around
> 50mb. I was trying to use xcdroast, but was unable to extract an audio
> cd to /tmp because it wasn't big enough. This is strange, because I
> probably have 50gb empty on my hard drive. I'm wondering if /tmp is a
> separate partition (is this my swap partition?) or why it won't use up
> the empty disk space. I don't know how to find out the exact limits
> on /tmp, except by what xcdroast told me.
>
> Can anyone explain to me what is going on, and what to do. Thanks,
>
> Ric
>
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