Subject: Re: i386 20000213 snapshot glitches To: John Nemeth <>
From: Greywolf <> List: current-users Date: 02/27/2000 08:27:35
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, John Nemeth wrote:  # On Jun 7,  9:39pm,
David Brownlee wrote: # } # }     "/" being full: # }
I believe pax honours the TMPDIR environment variable. # }
Could you try setting it to /mnt/tmp before running # }
systinst?  My workaround has been to move /tmp out of the way to
/otmp and recreate /tmp as a symlink to /mnt/tmp and mkdir
/mnt/tmp once the filesystem is mounted.  This, unfortunately,
requires Manual Intervention (MI can stand for WAY too many
things these days :-).  #      sysinst wants to run without the
filesystems being mounted, so if # TMPDIR is required before the
filesystems are prepped and mounted, # which is highly likely,
this wouldn't work.  Besides, I don't want to # destroy the
system that I built just to try this.  Actually, it would work,
because you're not going to be running pax until you have the
filesystems mounted!  Just run it as