Re: Partitioning Advice
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
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