> 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)...
That is quite right. In Windows both facilities mostly ly in the same drive, concurrently with anything else that might use up space there. But however that is, the space in those drives might be jammed while on other drives you have plenty of space left. Now I am incapable to utilize the plenty. That is the point. - Wolf
