On 2015-08-29 Sat 08:28 AM |, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 08/29/15 08:14, Craig Skinner wrote:
> > Hi team,
> >
> > I played about with manually allocating /var/tmp in a 5.7 install.
> >
> > Twice tar has complained when installing from local disk with:
> > < 512Mb /tmp
> > > 512Mb /var/tmp
> >
> > I dunno if it's anything to worry about.
> >
> > Here's hoping a script(1) log doesn't bugger up this mail formatting...:
> ...
>
> yeah. /var/tmp (the directory) has been replaced by a symlink to /tmp.
> Your machine already has a directory where baseXX tried to drop a symlink.
That explains it! Ta.
Earlier installs on this box gave:
Cannot determine prefetch area. Continue without verification? [no]
>From /usr/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub I noticed if any of
/tmp /var/tmp /home /usr /usr/local were larger than 512Mb,
the verification would be done in there:
# Find a filesystem to store the prefetched sets. Prefer file-
# systems which are not used during extraction. They need to
# have 512 MB free space. Otherwise use any other filesystem
# having 2 GB free space to prevent overflow during extraction.
_tmpfs=$( (
for fs in /mnt/{{,var/}tmp,home,usr{/local,}}; do
df -k $fs 2>/dev/null | grep " $fs\$"
done
df -k
) | (
while read a a a a m m; do
[[ $m ==
/mnt/@(@(|var/)tmp|home|usr/@(src,obj,xobj))@(|/*) ]] &&
((a > 524288)) && echo $m && exit
[[ $m == /mnt@(|/*) ]] &&
((a > 524288 * 4)) && echo $m && exit
done
) )
if [[ -d $_tmpfs ]]; then
! _tmpsrc=$(tmpdir "$_tmpfs/sets") &&
_issue="Cannot create prefetch area" && break
else
_issue="Cannot determine prefetch area" && break
fi
So I added an obsolete /var/tmp & increased /usr/local to see what would happen.
Cheers.
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