Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:33:49 -0400 From: Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> To: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp Message-ID: <20031002033349.GI60073@www.bluecirclesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20031001222743.01fb2550@pop.voyager.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031001222743.01fb2550@pop.voyager.net>
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:30:41PM -0400, Dragoncrest wrote: > I've got a sight problem I need help with. Trying to install WolfET > on my Freebsd workstation and it requires something like 286 megs of free > space on /tmp. My /tmp is only 256. So I'm kinda sunk. Any way I can > enlarge this short of a complete wipe and repartition of the drive? Or can > I temporarily mount another drive to /tmp, install the game, then > umount/mount back to what it was? I know I probubly should have made my > /tmp 512megs, but when I was originally installing this box I didn't think > about that at the time. Is there a way to work around this problem or am I > kinda screwed in general? If you have another partition with gobs of space, create a temp directory in that one and point your TEMPDIR environment variable at it. If the install script doesn't know TEMPDIR, you could temporarily not mount /tmp, and change it to be a symlink to your 'temp' temp dir... Marc. -- Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) http://www.bluecirclesoft.com http://www.mrami.com (personal)
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