hi,
i also met this during the installation of staroffice. tmp is usually mounted in the / partition. in my case i just gave / about 100MB and it was getting used up (the clean tmp at boot option doesnt seem to work). one work-around is to create another temporary tmp folder for your user (in your home directory if it has the space to spare) and set the TMP environment variable to point to that location so every program that the user does is placed there. when the opportunity arises (when you need to reinstall), add more space to your root partition or create a tmp partition suitable enough for big installations (a little bit overkill because the work-around provided above is more efficient since not all installations use up the tmp space.) HTH On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:16:45 +0900 tek1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i just tried to install jbuilder in my home dir (e.g. /home/me) and i got > the below error: > > Preparing to install... > WARNING! The amount of /tmp disk space required to perform > this installation is greater than what is available. Please > free up at least 34640 kilobytes in /tmp and attempt this > installation again. You may also set the IATEMPDIR environment > variable to a directory on a disk partition with enough free > disk space. To set the variable enter one of the following > commands at the UNIX command line prompt before running this > installer again: > - for Bourne shell (sh), ksh, bash and zsh: > $ IATEMPDIR=/your/free/space/directory > $ export IATEMPDIR > - for C shell (csh) and tcsh: > $ setenv IATEMPDIR /your/free/space/directory > > > i have a 40gb hard drive and just recently set up my system, so i don't > know how this could happen. i don't remember the allocations that i did > when i installed mandrake, but i set it up for a server configuration and > don't believe that i modified it (much) from the default settings. > > beside the solution prompted above (using the IATEMPDIR env), what are my > options? > > can i delete all the files in /tmp? i saw that some of those files had > locks on them... > > also, how can i quickly find out how much space is available on the hard > drive/partition? is there a quick command, or do i have to go to linuxconf > everytime? > > > > my apologies because i do believe that someone asked a similar question not > so long ago about this on the list. but where are the searchable archives > for this list? > > > thanks... > > > > -- "Programming, an artform that fights back." =============================== Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 ===============================
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