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MATLAB on netbsd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Farnaz Haghseta)
Thu Feb 8 12:20:38 1996
From: Farnaz Haghseta <farnaz@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 12:16:28 EST
Hi, I asked olc the following questions. I was wondering if you could help
me further.
> my last question was:
> i'm trying to run matlab on my pc which uses netbsd. for some reason,when
> > i get matlab to run it starts up and then crashes suddenly. the first 2
> > times, it gave me a message: " unable to write temporary file: No
> space
> > left on device" i looked at my temp directory and only 2 files were on
> > there, which i couldn't erase. can i run matlab using netbsd?
> and OLC reply was:
> You might want to check your free disk space by typing:
>
> athena% df /tmp
>
> and tell us what you get.
> and this is what i got:
> Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> mfs:17 5598 14 5304 0% /tmp
>
> my next question:
> do i have enough disk space to run matlab? thanks.
>OLC reply:
>I'm not sure how much disk space Matlab requires on NetBSD, but you
>might want to try mounting another filesystem with more space on /tmp,
>and see what happens.
Do you know the easiest way which I can partition more space to /tmp on
netbsd, so that I can run MATLAB?
Thanks.
