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Prefer /var/tmp over /tmp for large temporary files
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RESOLVED: MOVED

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Description Richard 2015-11-24 16:16:41 CET
On many newer systems /tmp is a tmpfs not real storage and has limited space (Fedora defaults to 4GB).

There's probably several options to work around this but a couple are:
1. Test if /var/tmp exists and use it if it does.
2. Test if /tmp is tmpfs and use somewhere else if it is.
Comment 1 Skunnyk editbugs 2017-11-11 19:50:49 CET
You can select temporary folder in the preferences.
Comment 3 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-24 17:08:50 CEST
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Bug #12330

Reported by:
Richard
Reported on: 2015-11-24
Last modified on: 2020-05-24

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Assignee:
Xfburn Bug Triage
CC List:
2 users

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