hi anuerin! thanks for the excellent suggestion. will try it!
additional questions abt /tmp -are the files (that programs place there temporarily) automatically cleaned up at certain times, or do we need to manually delete the files there? if the latter, how do we know which we can delete without problem, as some sometime have a lock on them (which i guess makes them undeletable?)? -is there a way to reize the /tmp partition, besides a new installation? like partitionMagic or something? thanks... :) At 15:06 01/12/10 -0500, you wrote: >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
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