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From: frank@morgan.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix 1.2 small problems
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Date: 22 Apr 88 17:03:41 GMT
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James DaSilva <mimsy!jds> writes:

>>The shell has the /tmp directory hard-coded into the source that deals with
>>'here' files.  grep for it.  A quick fix for you would be to change it to
>>put the temp file in '.' since you have a hard disk.  A better fix would be
>>to add a -T option to sh, to match cc and asld. 

My solution to the lack of /tmp space on the ram disk is to make a partition
on the hard disk and mount it as /tmp.  I think this is a better solution
since "sh" is certainly not the only program that creates files in /tmp.
Looking for all portential users of /tmp and adding a -T option to each one
is not my idea of a good time.  Of course, once I've done this, I'll have
to remember to use "-T."  Moving /tmp to a device with more space is (to
my mind) a simpler and more general solution.

The only non-obvious problem with my solution is that /etc/update opens /tmp.
It does this to keep the inode in core, thereby reducing the amount of time
to access this often-accessed directory.  You can safely comment out the
code that does this.  Recompile and install the new update, and now mount
/tmp in safety. :-)

					Regards,
					Frank
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					frank@morgan.com