[TriLUG] running out of disk space?

[Jason Tower]

depening on the download method used, the file is actually downloaded 
into /tmp first, then copied to the final destination when complete.  
i'm pretty sure most browsers work in this fashion, although it may 
depend on whether they are downloading via ftp or http.  so if your 
/tmp fills up the download will fail, if you're downloading three ISOs 
simultaneously you'll need 2GB of free space in /tmp for it to work.

jason

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 11:09, mike wrote:
> I was trying to download the iso's for RH9 today and keep running
> into an error that says something like "disk space full...clear out
> any unused files and try again...."  I don't understand why this is
> happening.  I'm trying to save the files to my /home/mike/Desktop dir
> and it would appear that I have plenty of space.
>
> [mike at REDHAT1 mike]$ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5               507588    137384    343998  29% /
> /dev/hda1                99043     14211     79718  16% /boot
> /dev/hda3             15248132     45876  14427684   1% /home
> none                    127704         0    127704   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda2             41696160   3201348  36376752   9% /usr
> /dev/hda6              1031800    129788    849600  14% /var
> /dev/fd0                  1423         8      1416   1% /mnt/floppy
> [mike at REDHAT1 mike]$
>
> I would appreciate any help that could be offered.  The ISO I was
> downloading is <680 meg of course, and I seem to have well over 14
> gig for my home directory.
>
> mike
>
>
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