1)Move you /tmp to /home/tmp:
"mv /tmp /home"

2)check that you have no /tmp in your root :
"ls /"

3)link /tmp to /home/tmp:
ln -s /home/tmp /tmp

Note: this is for the case that Helix needs /tmp. If it need /temp, do
the above replacing /temp for /tmp.

Buchan

Stefan Srdic wrote:
> 
> Buchan Milne wrote:
> 
> > df
> >
> > This will show you what partitions you have and where directories are
> > mounted. If /tmp is not listes, it will be in the / (root) partition. If
> > you don't have much space available on /tmp's partition, move /tmp to
> > another partition that has space (say /home) and then link /tmp to the
> > new location (/home/tmp in this case) with :
> > "ln -s /home/tmp /tmp"
> >
> > Buchan
> >
> 
> Here's my "df" results:
> 
> Filesystem           Size      Used     Avail   Use%  Mounted on
> /dev/hda6             289M   195M   79M      71%      /
> /dev/hda8             4.1G     110M   3.8G     3%        /home
> /dev/hda1             9.3G     3.9G     5.5G     42%      /mnt/win_c
> /dev/hda3             201M   180M   21M      90%      /mnt/win_d
> /dev/hda7             4.8G     2.2G    2.3G      49%      /usr
> 
> Obviously, the /tmp directory is in the root partition, so I tried to move it using 
>the
> "ln -s /home/tmp /tmp" command, then I retried to install Gnome using the "lynx 
>-source
> http://go-gnome | sh" command. I still got the same error saying that I do not have
> enough free space in the /temp directory. How do I correctly move the /tmp directory 
>and
> change the link to the /tmp directory?
> 
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