Herb Peyerl wrote:

>  > > perhaps the temp file created by restore in /tmp?
>  > 
>  > So, your /tmp is on a same filesystem with you're dumping?
> 
> that's correct.
> 
> When I built the system, I was feeling too lazy to figure out how
> I wanted to subdivide everything so I chose "one big partition".
> I know probably stupid but......

Is mfs a simple workaround for this problem then?

Simon.
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