From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 14:34:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B37537B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AB68167A02A2; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:34:32 -0700 Message-ID: <3B0ADB68.B263E37D@urx.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:34:32 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francois Kritzinger Cc: Mike Oligny , freeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: /tmp FULL ??? References: <76928F3E231DE4478876350F08358336044A97@kt-exchange.edmonton.kanotech.net> <3B0AD916.80CEF102@iafrica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francois Kritzinger wrote: > > Mike Oligny wrote: > > > Try something like this: > > > > mkdir /usr/tmp > > chmod 777 /usr/tmp > > rm -rf /tmp ; ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp > > > > I may be missing something, but this should work. In a hurry, let me > > know if you need me to explain. > > > > -Mike > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Francois Kritzinger [mailto:ffkrz@iafrica.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 3:06 PM > > To: freeBSD Mailing List > > Subject: /tmp FULL ??? > > > > I downloaded StarOffice, and when I ran the .bin installation script, it > > reported that /tmp was full. This makes sense as the / disk slice has > > only 14 Mb free space. So my question is: > > > > Where or how do I change the system's temp directory? I.e. from /tmp to > > something else. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > No, I see what you did there, it seems like a good idea. But there must be > a system setting or something to change the temp dir to something else? > You had a choice when you installed the system. I have a /tmp as its own file system. Now you can create a new /tmp file system or link it to /usr. The choice is up to you. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message