RE: Partitioning Advice - Thanks to all
Thanks to all who responded. Looks like I'll be repeatedly installing so
your advice will not go to waste.
John Purser
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Dickson [mailto:crdic@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 16:02
To: 'Debian users list'
Subject: Re: Partitioning Advice
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.
Craig
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