On 05/25/2012 03:22 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > How much RAM do you have / how big is your /tmp(fs)? The fact this caused > you trouble suggests to me that they must be very small. > What if we're installing Debian on a very small system, and that we need operations with big files in /tmp? How much RAM he has is totally irrelevant, the issue will be the same if our users have less RAM, or bigger files to handle. Thomas