Not enough room in /tmp when 'sh'ing a patch

[Simon R Wootton]

I'm trying to unpack a download patch for an 11i system but each time I try, /tmp fills and it obviously errors. The patch is 30Mb compressed and I only have 40Mb free in /tmp.

Other than extending the size of /tmp or deleting files, is there a way of using another filesystem for the unpacking ??

All help rewarded.
Thanks
Simon

[T G Manikandan]

#TMPDIR=/var/tmp
#export TMPDIR

Thanks

[Stefan Farrelly]

Try cd'ing to /var/tmp then sh /tmp/, this should unpack it to /var/tmp where you should have more free space, or you can cd to another directory then try it.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,

Yes, the patch files is created in the directory where you unpack the sh-archive.

[T G Manikandan]

mv the patch to a file system with enough space.

mv /home
#sh


Thanks

[Simon R Wootton]

The patches are in a filesystem with 18Gb free when I try to sh them, it seems to be using /tmp as temp unapcking space.

[V. V. Ravi Kumar_1]

hi,
if /tmp is not having enough space u can unshar it in any file system which is enough to hold the file. do a bdf on ur system and see if any filesystem is free enough to hold the patch. copy this to that directory and run
#sh

Regards

[Jdamian · Accepted solution]

The /tmp directory is used to uncompress the depot and this directory is forced in sh scripts of any patch. Thus, solutions given above, as change TMPDIR, aren't useful.

I think you have to edit the sh file and change at the end the next line:

uncompress /tmp/compress$$
mv /tmp/compress$$ PHxx_NNNNN.depot

for this other

uncompress /var/tmp/compress$$
mv /var/tmp/compress$$ PHxx_NNNNN.depot

[T G Manikandan]

point the TMPDIR variable to the file system with enough space like

#mkdir /home/temp
#TMPDIR=/home/temp
#export TMPDIR


Revert

[Stefan Farrelly]

Youre right, in the code for the shar file it uses tmp to unpack and uncompress. Theres doesnt seem to be a variable to control it so you either need to free up some space in /tmp, or extend it, or try to hack the share file. Its only a text file so you can use vi, you need to change the following lines;

rm -f /tmp/uud$$
(echo "begin 666 /tmp/uud$$\n#;VL*n#6%@x\n \nend" | uudecode) >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ X"`cat /tmp/uud$$ 2>&1`" = Xok ]
then
unpacker=uudecode
else
echo Compiling unpacker for non-ascii files
pwd=`pwd`; cd /tmp


Change /tmp to some other dir. And further down also change;

cc -o unpack$$ unpack$$.c
rm unpack$$.c
cd $pwd
unpacker=/tmp/unpack$$
fi
rm -f /tmp/uud$$

And 1 more further down the file;

uncompress /tmp/compress$$
mv /tmp/compress$$ PHSS_28470.depot

Again change /tmp to a new dir; That shuold do it - 3 sections to change. Ive tried it and it works fine.

[T G Manikandan]

Also check Sachin response here
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x2282abe92dabd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html