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Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)



Kent West said on Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:27:40AM -0500:
> Micha Feigin wrote:
> 
> >Make sure to have enough in tmp too if you use music/video rip/encoding
> >or graphic programs as they tend to use large temp files.
> > 
> >
> 
> Ah, good point. I've run into problems on several occassions when 
> downloading large files (such as .ISOs, etc) via a program that first 
> saves the file to /tmp, and my /tmp wasn't big enough, so I had to 
> figure out some other method of getting around the limitation. At the 
> moment, I can't remember the details of what file or what app I was 
> using, but I think in the future, if I've got the space, I might 
> allocate 1GB or so to /tmp.

Most programs honor the TMPDIR environment variable.  Just set
TMPDIR=/place/with/lots/of/space and you should be fine.  If the software
you're using doesn't honor TMPDIR, file a bug.  :)

M

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