Initial creation temp archive

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Initial creation temp archive

Closed this issue 2 years ago · 1 comments

JGarcia1973 commented 2 years ago

There should be an option to specify a path to create the initial mkself[0-9].tar archive. By default the makeself will create that temp archive in /tmp/mkself[0-9].tar. If the user has a separate /tmp partition with 10GB of space and their archive is 18GB, the compression will fail, causing makeself to crash.

Answer 1 · 2022-07-25T11:41:57.000Z

There is no command-line option, however the script does look for the $TMPDIR environment variable (and defaults to /tmp if it is not set). So I would suggest you set that before creating your archive.