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- From: rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: /var/tmp I/O error
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.160827.28647@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 16:08:27 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.114101.28354@aristo.tau.ac.il>
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- Reply-To: chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com(Rudy Chukran)
- Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division
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- In article <1992Aug31.114101.28354@aristo.tau.ac.il>, marsh@aristo.tau.ac.il (MARSHALL RAPAPORT) writes:
- |> I get an I/O on /var/tmp when doing vi to a file. THe only way to resume
- |> working on /var is to reboot the machine. Everything works fine after
- |> rebooting for a random amount of time and then the problem reoccurs. It
- |> seemed like a hardware problem - but the IBM technician didn't find anything
- |> when running the diagnostics. I have the feeling that this might be in
- |> someway a software error. Has anyone ever had this problem occur? Please
- |> get back to me if this problem has occurred by you.
- When this has happened to me, the /var filesystem had filled up. /var is
- usually only one partition (4 M), and that is where all the spool space
- is kept. Id suggest doing what I did, which is changing you .exrc to
- set the temp directory to somewhere else. Either that, or
- make /var bigger.
-
- Here is my .exrc
-
- :se ai sm shell=/bin/sh directory=/tmp
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