Thread: /tmp & /var/tmp
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Old 13th July 2008
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Originally Posted by TerryP View Post
some programs and operations will create large files if given large I/O. An example, installing Quake 4 on FreeBSD takes a lot of /tmp space and ark will bomb out if there is not enough space in /tmp

-> hopefully every coder is smart enough to honor $TMPDIR but who says everyone is smart.
in this case i will just:
Code:
sudo mkdir /home/tmp
sudo rm -R /var/tmp
sudo ln -s /home/tmp /var/tmp
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