I am confused. Isn't mozilla writing to whatever partition the temporary data is stored(ie /tmp) while the system stores its temporary data in RAM and on the swap partition(Windows similarly segregates virtual memory if I am not mistaken)...
gavin long wrote: > cr wrote: > >> How about this? >> >> While the dialog box is up begin saving the file to some temporary >> place. If the file system runs out of space, just "pause" the download >> at this point. > > > If the "temporary place" is on the same disk/partition/whatever as > whatever the system uses for ITS temporary data, then your entire OS is > probably going to go down in flames very shortly after the space runs out. >
