Disk space eaten up

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Feb 2, 2008 5:54 AM, vej <samwedge at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Shouldn't Octave delete any temp files when it is restarted?

No. It relies on OS to clean up mess in /tmp (eventually)
>
>  I've looked for my 1.5Gb in /tmp, every directory and sub-directory with
> 'octave' in the name and in my home folder with no luck.

I think the file names are oct-...

> I have also tried
> the usual reboot of my computer and restarting Octave.
>

This is a pernicious habit...

>  Anyone know where the diskspace is being eaten up?
>

You can try to get octave-3 rpm from fedora-development.
It does work on Fedora 8, but I am not sure about Fedora 7.
Octave-3.0 uses pipes rather than tmp files, should work
better and faster for the cases like yours.

>  I really appreciate your time reading this.
>
>  Thanks in advance.
>
>  Sam
>
>

Regards,

Dmitri.
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