Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 15:55:55 -0400 From: rdewalt@meridianksi.com (Ryan Dewalt) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Adam Blake <blake@sba.miami.edu> Subject: Re: pkg_add and -t option Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20010508155555.01831410@mail.meridianksi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10105081536410.1860-100000@homer.bus.miami.e du>
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At 03:44 PM 5/8/2001 -0400, you wrote: >I've been having lots of problems with the pkg_add command. I am running out of space >on /var/tmp where pkg_add likes to use as a "staging" area while it downloads. The man >page says that if you use the -t option you can specify that it download to another >location such as /usr/tmp/instmp.XXXXXX and it will download all it needs there. I keep >doing this and pkg_add continues to download to /var/tmp and overflow the directory!!! > >Can anybody out there help please? > > >-Adam On one of my machines, I run into a similar problem rather rapidly with munpack (which uses /var/tmp as well) I solved this by symlinking /var/tmp to another partition. /storage/var.tmp/ in my case (/storage is a rather large drive who's sole purpose in life is to be a rather large drive for when I need a rather large drive to extend into temporarily...) (as root, make sure /var/tmp is unused/empty) rmdir /var/tmp mkdir /storage/var.tmp/ chmod 777 /storage/var.tmp/ (since /var/tmp is normally globally +rwx) ln -s /storage/var.tmp/ /var/tmp Now, this does have downsides. (/var is by default on the root partition AFAIK, and if you boot into single user mode and don't mount -a you won't have /var/tmp to use.) And may not exactly be the wisest decision... but its how I tackled my instance of this problem And as always, there is more than one way to shoot yourself in the foot. -Ryan -- Ryan Dewalt - Code Poet rdewalt@meridianksi.com tet@solfire.com .ASP programmer by day, FreeBSD Proto-Guru by night. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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