On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:18:52 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

> 
> segv <segv@netctl.net> writes:
> > On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:42:17 -0400
> > "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> openoffice-bin seems to overflow my /tmp/ in attempting to install.
> >> Is there any reasonable way to tell it to use another directory to
> >> unpack in?
> >
> > Assuming you have a large swap partition, you can mount /tmp as mfs
> > filesytsem.
> 
> 1) I already have an mfs filesystem there, and it is too small to
>    manage this.
> 2) Yes, I could reboot with a larger one, or with /tmp/ on root, but I
>    don't like the idea of having to reboot whenever I install
>    openoffice -- I reinstall all my packages monthly.
> 3) It is unreasonable of a package to assume /tmp/ is huge.
> 
> So how does one get around this "properly"?
> 
> Perry

Is there any reason why you want to keep mfs small? For example I've got 2GB
swap and allocate 1GB to mfs mounted on /tmp. This seems to work pretty well...