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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 00:17:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>
To: Jay Nelson <jdn@qiv.com>
cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>,
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Subject: Re: Partitioning
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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Jay Nelson wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> 
>     > On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Michael Knoll wrote:
> 
>     > > What happened is my / slice is only 30 some megs, and when lynxs downloads
>     > > a file, it puts it in /tmp, which is in /.  So, if I download anything
>     > > about 30 megs(well, less than that) it fills /.
> 
> Try ncftp?

You all missed the obvious solution -- make /tmp a symlink to /usr/tmp...
(provided ample space is in /usr of course.)

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