Insufficient Space (was Re: Finder ulimit/Compactor1.3

[Jeff Mann]

rmtodd at servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) writes:

>weier at twolf4.CE.YALE.EDU (Richard Weier) writes:
>
>>I attempted to unpack a file using Compactor Pro 1.3 under A/UX.  The 
>>unpacked file would be about 10 Meg.  There was plenty of space on the disk
>>but I got a message saying "insufficient space on this volume".
>
>   Hmm.  I can think of two possibilities.  The first is that you've still
>got the "BSD free space reserve" set on your filesystems.  On BSD-style
Possibility #2:
>happening is that Compacter Pro is helpfully checking the free space on 
>the MacOS partition "/" for you, which happens to be equivalent to checking
>the free space on the root Unix partition.  So it was objecting that there
>wasn't 10M free on the root Unix partition, even though there was free
>space where you were planning to unpack the files.  
>   So what can you do about this?  Not a lot, alas :-(.  The method I use
>is to set aside a section of one hard disk as a genuine MacOS partition for
>use in such situations (when you need a good bit of temp. space for
>un-Compacting, etc.)  

I have had the same problem, and it can't be either one that Richard T.
describes. I was trying to install Quark using it's installer program.
Even though I've got, oh about 400meg free, it says insufficient space.
Also, I currently have A/UX set up with everything on one unix filesystem,
root, so there goes #2... any more ideas?

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