From bc0451cfe308f33a437cac9c47e9c0ee9d51f4c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Williams Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:17:24 +0100 Subject: add a note on how to change the temp directory location. --- doc/overview.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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: -- cgit v1.2.1