Just use the df command to see the space available.

/Brian

On Monday 10 December 2001 2:16 am, you wrote:
> i just tried to install jbuilder in my home dir (e.g. /home/me) and i got
> the below error:
>
> Preparing to install...
> WARNING! The amount of /tmp disk space required to perform
> this installation is greater than what is available.  Please
> free up at least 34640 kilobytes in /tmp and attempt this
> installation again.  You may also set the IATEMPDIR environment
> variable to a directory on a disk partition with enough free
> disk space.  To set the variable enter one of the following
> commands at the UNIX command line prompt before running this
> installer again:
> - for Bourne shell (sh), ksh, bash and zsh:
>       $ IATEMPDIR=/your/free/space/directory
>       $ export IATEMPDIR
> - for C shell (csh) and tcsh:
>       $ setenv IATEMPDIR /your/free/space/directory
>
>
> i have a 40gb hard drive and just recently set up my system, so i don't
> know how this could happen.  i don't remember the allocations that i did
> when i installed mandrake, but i set it up for a server configuration and
> don't believe that i modified it (much) from the default settings.
>
> beside the solution prompted above (using the IATEMPDIR env), what are my
> options?
>
> can i delete all the files in /tmp?  i saw that some of those files had
> locks on them...
>
> also, how can i quickly find out how much space is available on the hard
> drive/partition?  is there a quick command, or do i have to go to linuxconf
> everytime?
>
>
>
> my apologies because i do believe that someone asked a similar question not
> so long ago about this on the list.  but where are the searchable archives
> for this list?
>
>
> thanks...

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