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Subject: Re: Patch to tech mkimg about the TMPDIR variable
From: Dan McGregor <danismostlikely@gmail.com>
To: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
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On 22 May 2014 09:21, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Dan McGregor <danismostlikely@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I was running out of room in /tmp on my system while using mkimg getting
> > this error:
> >
> > partition 1: starting block 16 ... mkimg: partition 1: No space left on
> > device
> >
> > So, I patched mkimg to respect the TMPDIR variable.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> LGTM.  Will you update the man page too?
>
>
I hadn't thought of of that. I shall and post a new patch.

Dan