Re: downloading big file problem

From: Paul Lutus (nospam_at_nosite.zzz)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:14:59 -0700

wzhang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running RH 7.2. When I try to downloading some big file, such as
> Oracle 9i, I always got an error message: "/tmp runnig out of space"
> and it asked me to download to somewhere else. I was actually using
> other folders as destination and not uisng /tmp. Could anybody tell me
> how to solve this probem?

Go ahead, confess. You have a bunch of partitions on your drive, yes?

To solve this class of problem in the future, remove any unnecessary
partitions. Install Linux with a minimum of partitions (typically boot,
swap, root). The result will be that the entire drive will have to be full
before this kind of error message appears.

To fail to do this is to invite a kind of system unreliability that has no
compensating advantage at all. There will be times when you will have
plenty of drive space, but in the wrong partitions, and no way to shift the
free space around, causing gratuitous failures. Just like now. 

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

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