From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 20:33:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B9616A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:33:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.bluecirclesoft.com (cpe-024-165-114-048.cinci.rr.com [24.165.114.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2A244001 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 20:33:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com) Received: from www.bluecirclesoft.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h923XoFa042077; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:33:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mrami@bluecirclesoft.com) Received: (from mrami@localhost) by www.bluecirclesoft.com (8.12.9p1/8.12.9/Submit) id h923XoA3042076; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:33:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mrami) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:33:49 -0400 From: Marc Ramirez To: Dragoncrest Message-ID: <20031002033349.GI60073@www.bluecirclesoft.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031001222743.01fb2550@pop.voyager.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20031001222743.01fb2550@pop.voyager.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:33:55 -0000 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)