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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2009-07-21 11:47:57 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2009-07-21 11:47:57 +0100
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Allow TMPDIR to override directory used for temporary files (RHBZ#512905).
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@@ -937,6 +937,16 @@ used.
See also L<QEMU WRAPPERS> above.
+=item TMPDIR
+
+Location of temporary directory, defaults to C</tmp>.
+
+If libguestfs was compiled to use the supermin appliance then each
+handle will require rather a large amount of space in this directory
+for short periods of time (~ 80 MB). You can use C<$TMPDIR> to
+configure another directory to use in case C</tmp> is not large
+enough.
+
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO