In this case there's no chance of making any such changes, and I do
not really need to anyway. All that was important from the point of
view of Sage was to check that there had not been a 4-fold increase in
size from 4.6.2 to 4.7; which there was not.
John
>
> In case it is, that's easy to solve without changing the [main]
> filesystem's characteristics, assuming you're using Linux:
>
> [To the owner or administrator of the affected box:]
>
> # Create a sufficiently large file to create a filesystem in (here 4
> GB):
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/wherever/sage-filesystem bs=1024 count=4M
>
> # Create a filesystem (here ext4) within that file:
> # (You might get prompted whether to continue because it's not a block
> device.)
>
> mkfs -t ext4 /wherever/sage-filesystem
>
> # Create a directory to later mount that filesystem on (usually in /
> mnt or /media):
>
> mkdir /mnt/sage-filesystem
>
> # Mount the new filesystem:
>
> mount -t ext4 -o loop /wherever/sage-filesystem /mnt/sage-filesystem
>
> # Move (or copy) the Sage installation into that filesystem:
>
> mv $SAGE_ROOT /mnt/sage-filesystem # or use "cp -pr ..."
>
> # Sage now lives in e.g. /mnt/sage-filesystem/sage-4.7
>
>
> You'll need administrator privileges ("sudo ...") for some of the
> commands above, and depending on your setup, also for (re)mounting the
> Sage filesystem later. (You can change the latter by editing /etc/
> fstab and setting the appropriate options for that filesystem, i.e.,
> add "user", and/or perhaps also "auto".)
>
>
> -leif
>
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