On Mi, 28 mar 12, 16:58:03, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > You could have also considered uncompressing the tarball somewhere else, > > like $HOME/tmp or $HOME/src, but it sure is a valid solution, especially > ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ > > On my computer that is running wheezy neither of these suggestions work, > because, I think, these are not mount points supporting access to external > physical disk hardware. You must be misunderstanding me, I meant "some directory in your home", because on most systems /home has enough space. > I tested this suggestion this morning. I don't > fully understand this, but I have been told that access to the original > /tmp file requires an entry in /etc/fstab. Err... your original /tmp is a directory on / not a file[1] and if you don't mount anything there your system will happily use the available space on / (the root partition). [1] unless you had a dedicated partition, but AFAIK in such a case you wouldn't get a tmpfs anyway > Think about it. Who is supplying this extra hardware? Any specialized > software that requires scratch files because the work is too large to > fit in ram is dead in the water with this change, and changing the > setting of RAMTMP does not fix the problem, or any of the work-arounds > that have been suggested so far. I think this is a serious flaw in the > current wheezy, a release critical flaw perhaps. My particular problem > is a project in which I regularly need to sort files 2 to 3 GB in size > on a computer with less than 1 GB of ram and 370 GB of rotating disk. > > But I am sure there are other problems needing real, physical scratch > space running very nicely on computers old enough to have once run > woody. And now they are to be broken by something in wheezy software? > Can this happen? Really? Why do you think such scratch space should be in /tmp (regardless of whether /tmp is on tmpfs, a separate partition or just a directory on /)? Kind regards, Andrei P.S. I accidentally did some re-wrapping, how long do you set your lines? -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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