#! /bin/sh # Use df to find a writable directory on a file system different from that # of the current directory. If one is found, create a temporary directory # inside it. : ${DF=df} : ${MKDIR=mkdir} # Try these : ${CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS="$TMPDIR /tmp /var/tmp /usr/tmp $HOME"} other_partition_tmpdir= # WARNING: using sed like this to extract the mount point will fail # if the mount point name contains `% '. dot_mount_point=`$DF --no-sync -P . | sed -n '2s/.*% *//p'` for d in $CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS; do d_mount_point=`$DF --no-sync -P $d | sed -n '2s/.*% *//p'` # Same partition? Skip it. test x$d_mount_point = x$dot_mount_point && continue # See if we can create a directory in it. if $MKDIR "$d/df-$$" > /dev/null 2>&1; then other_partition_tmpdir="$d/df-$$" break fi done if test -z $other_partition_tmpdir; then cat <&2 This test requires a writable directory on a different disk partition, and I couldn\'t find one. I tried these defaults: $CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS Set your environment variable CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS to make this test use use a different list. EOF fi test "$VERBOSE" = yes && set -x