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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!agate!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!io.org!nobody From: geoffred@io.org (Geoff Davidson) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Disk full errors Date: 1 Oct 1995 02:16:05 -0400 Organization: Internex Online, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (416 363 3783) Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <44lbn5$23t@ionews.io.org> References: <davidp-2909951437400001@mac219.admin.biola.edu> <44jv9i$a73@zuul.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: twitch.io.org Keywords: inn news bsdi X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nntp:16149 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1009 peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <davidp-2909951437400001@mac219.admin.biola.edu>, >David Pisoni <davidp@leonardo.net> wrote: >> Sep 29 14:15:40 donatello kernel: uid 133 on /: file system full >"sort" is creating a temporary file in "/tmp". >Make "/tmp" a symlink to "/var/tmp" or something like that, so long as >you have plenty of space for scratch files there... At first, I was going to skip this, but foolishly changed my mind... ...is there nothing at boot time that tries to write to /tmp? if so...what if /var is mounted on a different partition?