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Old 09-13-2002, 07:18 PM   #4
Undertoad
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No biggie, I was doing a quick full backup to disk to write a few CDRs for offsite backup purposes. I wrote the output to /tmp forgetting that /tmp is a separate, smaller partition.

There's a reason why you theoretically put /tmp on a separate partition. It's so that you don't fill the root partition if you run a command that eats all your disk space. But that "good reason" doesn't fly if your critical apps need space in /tmp!
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