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Re: Disk space problem

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:42:40 +0200

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:51:03 +0100:
> Am 12.12.2011 23:40, schrieb Xiaogang Zhang:
> >I am not too familiar with SVN, but have to use it now, on a Windows
> >2003 server.
> >
> >I have created a repository in the disk E, and start to import a large
> >project to it. In the halfway, I got a message from the OS saying the C
> >drive space is low, it seems to me that SVN is storing data onto the
> >disk C.
>
> I guess it stores temporary data there.
>
>
> >My questions are:
> >
> >1. How should I stop the "import" process, without causing any problem,
> >such as leave rubbish data in the disk?
>
> If you literally mean "svn import" with import process, then you
> don't have to do anything, because the import is done in one atomic
> transaction. If you mean something like "svnadmin load", this is not
> the case, there revisions are committed one by one. In that case,
> you should be able to resume the load operation from the first
> revision not loaded.
>
>
> >2. How can I force SVN store data onto drive E (or any disk I specified)
> >rather than on the C drive?
>
> I think you can use %TMP% or %TEMP% to change this location.

On unix it's TMPDIR/TMP/TEMP. And it appears to be the same on windows
(ref apr_temp_dir_get())
Received on 2011-12-13 09:43:28 CET

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