On 05/27/2012 01:59 AM, Wookey wrote: > here's a case where a lot of space gets used in there: open a .ppt > (powerpoint) file in libreoffice. The conversion involves writing a > file in /tmp/<mktmpdir> for every page/image. To open an image-heavy > 256Mb .ppt I have lying about here, generates 382MB of files in /tmp. > Oh, that's right! I forgot about this one. I had the issue with openoffice once, and my 1GB /tmp partition wasn't enough. It filled more than 2GB of crap, in fact, and if this was on a tmpfs, then it wouldn't have worked at all (eg: I wouldn't have had enough RAM at the time).
It took me a long time to understand what was going on. If it was someone else, like my mother or my wife (yes, they do use Debian :)), of course, they would never understand it. Thanks for reminding me this one which we have to add to the big list of heavy users of big-files in /tmp. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fc23cad.7040...@debian.org
