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From: stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ken Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.5.0 #32 - tools
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Date: 28 Dec 89 02:59:26 GMT
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In article <3051@plains.UUCP> overby@plains.UUCP (Glen Overby) writes:
>In article <1734@cod.NOSC.MIL> hall@cod.NOSC.MIL (Robert R. Hall) writes:
>>Question: is there any options to get patch to reassign where it uses
>>it's tmp space from?
>
>I haven't seen any.  Instead, I mount another partition or even a floppy
>as /tmp and run that way.  Some people have complained of problems mounting
>a filesystem on /tmp.  I had that once, but it sort of went away.  Anyway,
>just rename /tmp to, say, /pmt and mkdir a new /tmp.  Messy, but it works.

Just kill "update" and restart it after mounting on /tmp.
/tmp is busy while "update" is running.

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