[PLUG] Possible reasons why tarball creation would fail

[Larry Brigman]

Tar is using a temp file as it is doing the compression.  It needs to store
it someplace - one of the three tmp directories most likely /tmp.


On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Larry Brigman wrote:
>
> > Running out of space on the /tmp mount point?
>
> Larry,
>
>    I don't understand. The source partition is ~/ and the destination
> partition is /mnt/hd. Is /tmp used in the transfer? If so, then running out
> of space there is possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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