sorting a BIG file (solved)

[Mike Schmelzer]

Okay, here's what was going on:

sort(1) tries to use /usr/tmp (which is on /) instead
of /tmp (which I had doinked around with so that it was
on /mnt/bigpartition). Why sort does is is a mystery to
me. Fortunately, sort takes a -T argument, which allows
you to specify where to put sort's scratchfiles.

So, all'z I had to do was sort -T /mnt/bigpartition/scratch,
and it worked like a charm.

Here endeth the lesson.

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