Re: Making /tmp temporarily bigger
Its not clear from the original whether there is anything in /usr/local
at this point. I would assume there is, and would suggest that, if not
already there, a new directory called /usr/local/tmp should be used
instead of /usr/local. Then you don't need to worry about the stuff in
/tmp getting mixed in with the stuff already in the /usr/local
directory.
Julio Merino wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:36:52AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody,
> > I am trying to install StarOffice on a laptop running Debian 2.2. I have run into a problem in that StarOffice needs to utilize the /tmp directory and there doesn't seem to be enough space for it. I don't have anything in there taking up the space, it seems that the problem is that the directory just isn't big enough. So, I thought, "OK, I will symlink the /tmp directory to another directory" but I am having trouble. On the computer in question, /tmp is off of the root partition (/dev/hda5). It appears that Debian won't allow me to symlink the /tmp directroy to someplace else. I tried:
> > ln -s /usr/local /tmp
> > But that didn't work. That simulates the /usr/local directory as a
> > directory inside (ie: /tmp/local/
>
> You need to remove /tmp first, so:
>
> rm -r -f /tmp
> ln -s /usr/local /tmp
> chmod 1777 /usr/local
> chown root.root /usr/local
>
> And that's all. But remember which permissions and owners did you had
> in /usr/local to be able to recover them later.
>
> Hope it's useful,
> Bye!
>
> > What I need is /tmp=/usr/local but when I type:
> > ln -s /usr/local /
> > Debian won't let me do that. Any suggestions for making more space for /tmp?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan Walton
> >
> >
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