/tmp use on installation

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#1

Hey Sathya,

First of all, thank you very much for this amazing software!

There is one thing I noticed during the installation: The install script loads some fairly big files from the Homematic-Page and extracts them in /tmp. Normally this isn’t a issue but my homeautomation system runs on a single board pc with a AMD-GEODE and just 512MB RAM. /tmp is mounted as tempfs with 256MB max. With this limitation the installation of Homegear failed and I had to bind /tmp to something on the disk.

This isn’t really an issue, just some thing to lookout for.

Greetz,
Jan

#2

Hey Jan,

I could check for the available space on “/tmp” and ask for an alternative location during the installation, if there is not enough?

Cheers,
Sathya

#3

This would certainly help other users, which have less experience with Linux. I’m surprised that it even work’s on the RasPi. (Haven’t tried)

#4

ok, I opened an issue: https://github.com/Homegear/Homegear/issues/52

The Rasberry Pi has no seperate “/tmp” partition with the default installation. That’s why there are no problems :wink:.