Re: Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp
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? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" That is easy. Type man mdmfs for details, the quick explaination is to make a memory file system and mount it at /tmp. After a reboot or unmounting the mfs is gone without a trace and /tmp was the way it was before, also if there are files in /tmp before you start they disappear after a mounting and reapear after unmounting. So this should do it: $mdmfs -s 512m md /tmp a 512MB swap backed file system mounted at /tmp. jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:33:49PM -0400, Marc Ramirez wrote: > 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... Sorry - that should be TMPDIR. Marc. -- Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) http://www.bluecirclesoft.com http://www.mrami.com (personal) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp
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) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp
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? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
