Re: [newbie] not enough space on tmp? / archives for this list?

2001-12-10 Thread tek1
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

[newbie] not enough space on tmp? / archives for this list?

2001-12-09 Thread tek1
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

Re: [newbie] not enough space on tmp? / archives for this list?

2001-12-09 Thread Brian Parish
Just use the df command to see the space available. /Brian On Monday 10 December 2001 2:16 am, you 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

Re: [newbie] not enough space on tmp? / archives for this list?

2001-12-09 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
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