Re: Specifying tmp for tar
On Friday 31 August 2007 16:18:05 Dotan Cohen wrote:
I have a 2 GB bz2 archive that unzips to over 10 GB (wikipedia
dump).
Although I have over 50 GB free in /home, / has only about 8 GB free.
Thus, as tar uses /tmp, the / filesystem fills up and I cannot
continue. How can I specify a tmp directory for tar in my home
directory? Note that man tar makes no mention of a tmp option.
No, the manual doesn't mention it, but I think the program respects
the TMPDIR environment variable. Try setting it.
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