You could mount a bigger disk into /tmp - or symlink /tmp to another directory 
which have enough space.

Best
- Alex

On Mar 28, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Christian Prokopp <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using sqoop to copy data from MySQL to S3:
> 
> (Sqoop 1.4.2-cdh4.2.0)
> $ sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql://server:port/db --username user 
> --password pass  --table tablename --target-dir s3n://xyz@somehwere/a/b/c 
> --fields-terminated-by='\001' -m 1 --direct
> 
> My problem is that sqoop temporarily stores the data on /tmp, which is not 
> big enough for the data. I am unable to find a configuration option to point 
> sqoop to a bigger partition/disk. Any suggestions?
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 

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