TEMP worked but not TEMPDIR. THX - Jon
Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Jon Foster > <jon-li...@jfpossibilities.com> wrote: > >> I'm kind of new to the UML thing. I've read that every instance of UML >> creates a temp file that represents the RAM of that instance. Its >> obvious that putting that in a "tmpfs" would be very good, but I don't >> want to mount a tmpfs on "/tmp", its used by too many other things and >> the size restriction would cause problems. >> >> I've read a "per-instance" tmpfs can be setup... but nowhere have I seen >> how that's done. There doesn't appear to be any CLI switches for telling >> UML where to put the temp file and $TMPDIR doesn't seem to do anything >> for it. >> >> I'm running stock Debian 7 64bit on Intel Xeons, with their supplied UML >> packages. The UML kernel version is 3.2.54. >> >> How can I tell UML to put its temp file somewhere else? >> > > UML checks the environment variables TMP, TEMP and TEMPDIR. > Recent UML kernels use /dev/shm. > > -- Sent from my Debian Linux workstation -- http://www.debian.org/intro/about Jon Foster JF Possibilities, Inc. j...@jfpossibilities.com 541-410-2760 Making computers work for you!
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