From: Juerd Date: 09:47 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: ENOSPC, Mozilla doesn't DWIM /tmp was full at 94% of a very slow download. So Mozilla decided to stop the download completely. As soon as I clicked [OK], the file was unlinked. No chance of resuming the thing. Now I need to start all over. Besides, I told it to save the file in /mnt/foo, not in /tmp. /mnt/foo has more than enough available space.
From: Michael G Schwern Date: 11:43 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: Re: ENOSPC, Mozilla doesn't DWIM On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:47:53AM +0200, Juerd wrote: > /tmp was full at 94% of a very slow download. So Mozilla decided to stop > the download completely. As soon as I clicked [OK], the file was > unlinked. No chance of resuming the thing. Now I need to start all over. > > Besides, I told it to save the file in /mnt/foo, not in /tmp. /mnt/foo > has more than enough available space. Mozilla must be following the IE philosophy of "download your file to a temp directory then *copy* it (not rename) to its final destination". This has the benefits of: * Consuming twice the disk space * Leaving your disk uncluttered by canceled downloads * Unburdens you of the desire to look at partially downloaded files. These days I download everything that'll take more than a few minutes with wget -c.
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