different location than /tmp

[Vince Hillier]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 06:26:07PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Chris Aitken wrote:
> 
> >I am trying to download an ISO for the first time. I am getting the 
> >error, 'There is not enough room on the disk to save 
> >/tmp/aqxi1g8f.exe. Remove unnecessary files from the disk and try 
> >again, or try saving in a different location.' Well, I /am/ tring to 
> >save to a different location - to a separate hard drive, 
> >'/backupdrive' as it has 5 free GB. But how do I specify a different 
> >place for temp file to go than /tmp?
> 
> I thought maybe there would be an option in wget to specify where temp 
> file goes, bnut I don't see any such thing in wget --help or man wget...

wget will download to the current PWD by default.

You can link /tmp to your drive with 5GB free by typing:

	ln -s /tmp /backupdrive/tmp

You can then run wget in /tmp with sufficient space for your download.

On the other hand, why not just run wget from /backupdrive?

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