On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 08:21, Philip Webb wrote: > 030725 Pierre Fortin wrote: > > Used Mozilla to download 9.2beta1 to *MY* choice of target disk > > (yup, I finally have partitions available to test...); > > yet after over 300MB EACH downloaded, cd1 bombed out for lack of disk space. > > yes, we all trip over something occasionally (soothing look). > > no-one with experience would use a browser to download big files. > use Wget (there are alternatives, eg Curl, but i haven't used them): > run it in background on a separate desktop > with 'tail -f' to follow the log file; it restarts after any interruption. > > also, assign a sensible size to your / partition, which includes /tmp : > i have 2 GB assigned to / , of which 1,2 GB are currently available.
df, cat /etc/mtab and I bet you'll find that your /tmp is actually using tmpfs -- meaning it's a ramdisk. Size of / means nothing. Check the list archives for my name and "/tmp size" for more details. Oh, and by the way: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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