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author | Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> | 2016-04-29 22:17:24 +0100 |
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committer | Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> | 2016-04-29 22:17:24 +0100 |
commit | bc0451cfe308f33a437cac9c47e9c0ee9d51f4c8 (patch) | |
tree | 336decb764df667c1ffdf0cef8996ff48f650426 | |
parent | 4bf2d516fb6a7a94428e289eb0617997b4e7f02b (diff) | |
download | vmdebootstrap-bc0451cfe308f33a437cac9c47e9c0ee9d51f4c8.tar.gz |
add a note on how to change the temp directory location.
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diff --git a/doc/overview.rst b/doc/overview.rst index 60319f5..2adf118 100644 --- a/doc/overview.rst +++ b/doc/overview.rst @@ -455,6 +455,11 @@ a specific offset instead of using a normal partition will hypervisor will only be supported using virtual machine images, unless the bootloader can be executed from a normal partition. +If the host device has a limited amount of RAM or simply to use a different +TMP directory when preparing the filesystems, set the ``TMPDIR`` or ``TEMP`` +or ``TMP`` environment variables, in line with the underlying support in +the python tempfile module. + .. index:: developing .. _developing: |