Kent West said on Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:27:40AM -0500: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > >Make sure to have enough in tmp too if you use music/video rip/encoding > >or graphic programs as they tend to use large temp files. > > > > > > Ah, good point. I've run into problems on several occassions when > downloading large files (such as .ISOs, etc) via a program that first > saves the file to /tmp, and my /tmp wasn't big enough, so I had to > figure out some other method of getting around the limitation. At the > moment, I can't remember the details of what file or what app I was > using, but I think in the future, if I've got the space, I might > allocate 1GB or so to /tmp.
Most programs honor the TMPDIR environment variable. Just set TMPDIR=/place/with/lots/of/space and you should be fine. If the software you're using doesn't honor TMPDIR, file a bug. :) M
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