From: pechter@gmail.com (William Pechter)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:31:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57991A21.5030404@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N6Vxxw9GivitVF1LjzAHP6ac3dvHF4gCs83TNzup3OEUA@mail.gmail.com>
Mark Longridge wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> My root partition for Unix v6 is almost full and /dev/rk0 only has 83 blocks.
>
> The trouble is I wanted to compile bc.y and I think it needs around
> 300 blocks of temporary space. I was wondering if there was a way to
> set up Unix v6 so that it could use one of the other drives for tmp
> space. I tried to set up a link using ln but it seems I can't link
> across filesystems.
>
> The exact error is "26: Intermediate file error".
>
> I managed to rearrange things so that /dev/rk0 had over 300 blocks of
> free space and it fixed the problem, but I'm curious if there was
> another solution.
>
> Mark
Ah the good old days before BSD's symlinks.
Only thing I can think of is add another drive or partition and mount it
as /tmp.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-27 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-27 20:28 Mark Longridge
2016-07-27 20:31 ` William Pechter [this message]
2016-07-27 20:57 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 21:01 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 21:10 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 0:49 ` Clem cole
2016-07-28 1:03 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 11:23 ` [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) Michael Kjörling
2016-07-28 12:18 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-28 13:57 ` John Cowan
2016-07-30 7:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 11:41 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-30 23:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 23:50 ` scj
2016-08-01 11:36 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-30 14:15 ` John Cowan
2016-07-30 15:30 ` [TUHS] History repeating itself Michael Kjörling
2016-07-28 1:03 ` [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp Clem cole
2016-07-28 23:16 ` [TUHS] environments/universes (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) Sven Mascheck
2016-07-29 3:05 ` arnold
2016-07-29 14:14 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-29 13:55 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 20:41 [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp Norman Wilson
2016-07-27 21:18 Norman Wilson
2016-07-28 0:47 ` Clem cole
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