Temporary files directory

2007-07-24 Thread daniele pendenza
Hi all, currently I have a system-wide tmp directory, that has its own partition - let's name it K - on the disk. The K size is 1.5 GB. Unfortunately I found that it is too small for my purposes because it is used as a working directory of many programs -including the file roller. - What siz

Re: Temporary files directory

2007-07-24 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
daniele pendenza wrote: Hi all, currently I have a system-wide tmp directory, that has its own partition - let's name it K - on the disk. The K size is 1.5 GB. Unfortunately I found that it is too small for my purposes because it is used as a working directory of many programs -including the

Re: Temporary files directory

2007-07-24 Thread Michael Wagner
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:06:13AM +0200, daniele pendenza wrote: > - Is it possible to redirect the actual temporary directory to another > directory ? I mean tell the system to use another temporary directory - not > the /tmp ? Hello Daniele, look at "man bash" and search for TMPDIR. When yo

Re: Temporary files directory

2007-07-24 Thread andy
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:29:08AM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:06:13AM +0200, daniele pendenza wrote: > > > - Is it possible to redirect the actual temporary directory to another > > directory ? I mean tell the system to use another temporary directory - not > > the

Re: Temporary files directory

2007-07-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> currently I have a system-wide tmp directory, that has its own partition - > let's name it K - on the disk. > The K size is 1.5 GB. Unfortunately I found that it is too small for my > purposes because it is used as a working directory of many > programs -including the file roller. Then you shou