RE: dpkg-deb --build and the / partition
Well... It must be something else. I was just guessing that
you might be running out of space in /tmp since many utilities
put tmp files there. Those utilities also (mostly) look at
TMPDIR to see where to make tmp files. Sorry bout that.
You might try to look for big increases in space
usage while it is running. find has the -xdev option to keep it
from following mount points. du also has the -x option that does
the same thing. Maybe doing a du before running dpkg-deb and
then running du during the build and comparing the output???
jim
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From: David Z. Maze[SMTP:dmaze@donut.mit.edu]
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 1998 1:23 PM
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Subject: Re: dpkg-deb --build and the / partition
Lewis, James M <" <Jim.Lewis@alcoa.com>> writes:
LJM> You probably ran out of space in /tmp. Try
LJM> export TMPDIR=/var/tmp
LJM> (or the equiv in your shell).
Doesn't work; I still run out of space in /.
LJM> If that doesn't work, you might try making /tmp a link to
LJM> somewhere with more space.
Is there a good way to do that without breaking things (i.e. the X
server) that set up stuff in /tmp?
More importantly, why does ls -al /tmp while dpkg-deb is running not
show a growing file, if something is trying to put a big file there?
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