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From: n62@np1.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX 1.3 UPGRADE
Message-ID: <137@np1.hep.nl>
Date: 22 Feb 89 11:54:53 GMT
References: <2229@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte)
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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In article <2229@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes:
>	I posted an article about problems running large shar
>	files through sh on Minix 1.2.  The main problem seemed
>	to be running out of space in /tmp.  Well I eventually
  ...	
>	Unfortunately my /tmp problems still exist.  While trying
>	to apply the diffs for 1.3, patch told me there was no room
>	on root device.  I have pretty much the original distribution
>	of Minix 1.2 except for /usr being on my hard disk.
>
>Jeff Holmes	                  DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org 
>Questar Data Systems                UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff

A solution for this problem is the following:
have the /tmp directory on a device with enough capacity.

You can do this by not having mounted one of the file systems on its
usual place; for example do /etc/umount /dev/dd0 ; /etc/mount /dev/dd0 /tmp
and you have your floppy mounted to /tmp.

Of course when you have a hard disk with enough space you can mount this one
on /tmp; to make live easier i recommend adaption of shell / environment 
variable PATH to include /tmp/bin.

Klamer.

ps: /dev/dd0 is the minix-st name for the floppy; on a pc it could be /dev/fd0.
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