Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 17:01:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Paul Vinciguerra <PVinci@ix.netcom.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Where is /tmp mounted? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950407165320.6745C-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504070347.UAA15642@ix4.ix.netcom.com>
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On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Paul Vinciguerra wrote: > I've been playing with the packages and can't seen to pkg_add xemacs off > the CD. It keeps telling me that /tmp is out of space. > > How do I increase the space? or is there another way to install xemacs? /tmp may or may not be a separate partition. I usually don't make it a separate partition, but I suppose you could, by creating a new partition for it and mounting it. As the directory's name suggests, it's either a subdirectory of / (root) or its mounted onto /. Most likely, this means you selected the smallest root size, and your root filled up because too much stuff was being put into /tmp. I'm not sure for pkg_add, but in general the assignment of the temporary storage directory defaults to /tmp but may be changed by setting the shell variable TMPDIR. If I need more than I've allocated, I always have a /usr/tmp, my /usr is a separate partition from the / partition (and much larger) so I set TMPDIR to point to /usr/tmp. BTW, check partition fill values with 'df'. > > Paul > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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