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From: lidl@va.pubnix.com (Kurt J. Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Disk full errors
Date: 4 Oct 1995 11:54:41 -0400
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In article <44jv9i$a73@zuul.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
>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...

Don't do that.

If you are using BSDi, you should just set TMPDIR to /var/tmp.

-Kurt
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