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,
To see if /tmp is a separate partition (and its size, if it is) run df -h (the -h gives you human readable units, which is handy) -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
