different location than /tmp

[Vince Hillier]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 06:35:45PM -0500, Vince Hillier wrote:
> 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

Ignore my dyslexia, 

ln -s /backupdrive/tmp /tmp 

is what you want.

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