On 31/08/2007, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 23:18 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I have a 2 GB bz2 archive that unzips to over 10 GB (wikipedia dump). > > Although I have over 50 GB free in /home, / has only about 8 GB free. > > Thus, as tar uses /tmp, the / filesystem fills up and I cannot > > continue. How can I specify a tmp directory for tar in my home > > directory? Note that man tar makes no mention of a tmp option. > > Boot in single user mode, Then as root: > > # mkdir /home/tmp > # chmod 777 /home/tmp > # mv /tmp /tmp-old > # ln -s /home/tmp /tmp > # cp -a /tmp-old/* /tmp > > That creates a /home/tmp directory, allows everyone access, renames the > old /tmp to /tmp-old, symlinks /home/tmp to /tmp, then copies everything > that was in the old /tmp to the new one. Once that's done, you can > reboot and all references to /tmp will now access /home/tmp. Thanks, Rick, I'll try that. I can then simply erase the symlink? I know that "rm /tmp" will not erase the symlink, rather the content of /home/tmp so how can I remove it afterwards? Thanks. Also, as a learning experience, is there a way a user without root access could unpack the tar? It's not a problem, but I'd like to learn. Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/
