From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 14:01:37 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA19686 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 14:01:37 -0700 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA19679 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 14:01:35 -0700 Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA28354; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 17:01:27 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id RAA06940; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 17:01:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 17:01:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Paul Vinciguerra cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Where is /tmp mounted? In-Reply-To: <199504070347.UAA15642@ix4.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Paul Vinciguerra wrote: > I've been playing with the packages and can't seen to pkg_add xemacs off > the CD. It keeps telling me that /tmp is out of space. > > How do I increase the space? or is there another way to install xemacs? /tmp may or may not be a separate partition. I usually don't make it a separate partition, but I suppose you could, by creating a new partition for it and mounting it. As the directory's name suggests, it's either a subdirectory of / (root) or its mounted onto /. Most likely, this means you selected the smallest root size, and your root filled up because too much stuff was being put into /tmp. I'm not sure for pkg_add, but in general the assignment of the temporary storage directory defaults to /tmp but may be changed by setting the shell variable TMPDIR. If I need more than I've allocated, I always have a /usr/tmp, my /usr is a separate partition from the / partition (and much larger) so I set TMPDIR to point to /usr/tmp. BTW, check partition fill values with 'df'. > > Paul > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------