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Re: Help! -- Not enough space to store temporary files

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Dennis Wicks wrote on 12/17/2016 07:36 PM:
> I am trying to install Qt on Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2
> and I get a message that there is not enough disk space to
> store temporary files. It needs 580+ meg and only has 300+ meg.
>
> After searching here and there I tried entering the command
>
>      sudo mount -o remount,size=1G tmpfs /tmp
>
> which is supposed to increase the size temporarily and
> "on-the-fly" but I still get the same error message.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> TIA for your help!
>
> Dennis
>

Oops! That is "Not enough --"

Anyway, I just noticed that tmp is in a VG that is very small.
How do I temporarily tell the Qt installer to use temp space
on another partition. Say something like "/work4"?

Thanks again! You all are always very helpful!!

Dennis

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Help! -- Note enough space to store temporary files Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2016-12-18 02:50 +0100
  Re: Help! -- Note enough space to store temporary files Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2016-12-18 03:10 +0100
  Re: Help! -- Not enough space to store temporary files Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2016-12-18 03:30 +0100
    Re: Help! -- Not enough space to store temporary files Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2016-12-18 05:30 +0100
    Re: Help! -- Not enough space to store temporary files Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-12-18 09:40 +0100
      Re: Help! -- Not enough space to store temporary files Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2016-12-20 00:00 +0100

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