i'm trying to download openoffice.org 1.1 using mozilla 1.3.1 on mandrake 9.1, but when it's almost done downloading (around 82%), mozilla stalls the download and gives me this (on a message box with an exclamation mark icon and an "okay" button):

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There is not enough room on the disk to save /tmp/i79182xe.gz.

Remove unnecessary files from the disk and try again, or try saving in a different location.
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here's the output of "df -hT":

Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 reiserfs 2.1G 487M 1.6G 24% /
/dev/hda6 reiserfs 35G 24G 11G 69% /home
none tmpfs 62M 62M 0 100% /tmp


what's the deal with /tmp being full?

do i need to make /tmp bigger or something?

if so, how?

Well, you could just choose to save OO to your /home directory and install it from there. If you wanted to make your /tmp partition bigger, you'd basically have to delete that one and create a new- larger partition. Alternatively, you could put the /tmp directory in your / partition ($ mkdir /tmp), eliminate the /tmp partition then make the necessary adjustments in your /etc/fstab file by removing the line that mounts /tmp on its own part.

How much swap do you have, and what's in /etc/fstab?

hello there, thanks for your input!

=)


i'm not downloading to the /tmp folder... i'm downloading to my home folder...

my /tmp doesn't have it's own partition...

i have three partitions: root (hda1), swap (hda5), and home (hda6)...

i already downloaded openoffice.org using "wget", but still i want to know what the deal is with this mozilla error...

like, is it really a problem with my /tmp or is it a problem (bug?) with mozilla???

i have 800mb of swap... and here's the fstab:

/dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home reiserfs notail 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

I see. I am confused by:
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 reiserfs 2.1G 487M 1.6G 24% /
/dev/hda6 reiserfs 35G 24G 11G 69% /home
none tmpfs 62M 62M 0 100% /tmp

What is the 62mb limit there on /tmp? I haven't ever seen that before.

none tmpfs 62M 62M 0 100% /tmp

Try taking that line out.

ummm... what do you mean? that line is part of df's output...

look in /etc/fstab.

it defines your mount point. Your /tmp is currently in a ramdrive, which is limited in size to 62 MB. Remove its entry to that it goes under / or create a separate partition for it.

Just to clarify a bit on the Mozilla part, when downloading, it always downloads to the /tmp directory before placing into the actual directory you specified. That is why when it reaches that supposed 62mb, its gonna stop as its run out of room.

Remove the entry from /etc/fstab, umount it and then download as it appears you have 1.2GB left of space on / where your /tmp directory will reside at with plenty of space to download OO.

THANKS EVERYONE!!!

it looks like your suggestions worked flawlessly:


i commented-out the line in "/etc/fstab" about "/tmp", rebooted, and now "df" shows only "/" and "/home"... no ramdisk for "/tmp"...

i put openoffice to download again with mozilla and it downloaded perfectly with no errors...

8465e58cddd71474c20386a62b8cd43b OOo_1.1.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz


thanks again everyone... this linux community rules!!!

=)



PS:

i haven't been able to look into it yet, but it would seem that this change would affect this mandrake box's performance in general, wouldn't it? positively or negatively? i mean, i know a harddisk is slower than a ramdisk, but without temp files eating away ram, wouldn't that mean more ram for apps and stuff to run freely???

i checked and every mandrake box i run is doing this... my non-mandrake boxes aren't... i'm assuming that mandrake (at least 9.1, the one i use) does this by default, right???

WHY???

You're right, if you've got a lot of stuff in /tmp, it might decrease the performance of your box, especially if you don't have much ram.

Maybe see mandrake's errata?