Got a problem, need to enlarge /tmp

[Marc Ramirez]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:30:41PM -0400, Dragoncrest wrote:
> 	I've got a sight problem I need help with.  Trying to install WolfET 
> 	on my Freebsd workstation and it requires something like 286 megs of free 
> space on /tmp.  My /tmp is only 256.  So I'm kinda sunk.  Any way I can 
> enlarge this short of a complete wipe and repartition of the drive?  Or can 
> I temporarily mount another drive to /tmp, install the game, then 
> umount/mount back to what it was?  I know I probubly should have made my 
> /tmp 512megs, but when I was originally installing this box I didn't think 
> about that at the time.  Is there a way to work around this problem or am I 
> kinda screwed in general?

If you have another partition with gobs of space, create a temp
directory in that one and point your TEMPDIR environment variable at
it.  If the install script doesn't know TEMPDIR, you could temporarily
not mount /tmp, and change it to be a symlink to your 'temp' temp
dir...

Marc.

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