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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Disk full errors
Date: 30 Sep 1995 17:37:54 GMT
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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...
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