firefox question re mpg download disposal

[Jonathan Berry]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 00:25:03 -0500, Gene Heskett
<gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 01 January 2005 23:59, Kam Leo wrote:
> >On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:45:46 -0500, Gene Heskett
> [...]
> >> Its never been set to do that, I always set the ask me where
> >> button. I've got enough stuff laying around in /root, like a
> >> complete kde install.  I have directories I maintain for the
> >> various file formats although I've never dedicated one to .mpg's
> >> yet, no great need as I don't pie-rat those sort of things.
> >>
> >> Thanks Jeff, and have a better 2005.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers, Gene
> >
> >Sorry, I couldn't help you.  Did you have sufficient free space in
> >both directories?  And a good New Year to you too!
> 
> >From a df, and /tmp is on /,
> 
> /dev/hda7             30237928   1513920  27187996   6% /
> /dev/hda5             10079324   5379908   4187404  57% /root
> 
> I think with 4GB available on /root, there was room enough for a 56
> meg file :)

Perhaps you accidentally set Firefox to automatically open .mpg files
with vlc?  Check Edit->Preferences->Downloads to be sure.  You
mentioned the file being downloaded to the cache.  I have always seen
it save the partial file to the directory it was being downloaded to,
unless it was being opened with an application.
Oh, and please tell me that you are not regularly browsing and
downloading things as root.  It really is better to use a normal user
for that.  root just has too much power.

Jonathan