Merge pull request #4297 from gtirloni/docs-tmpdir

Add comment about TMPDIR environment variable
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@ -39,3 +39,8 @@ each can be found below:
[checkpoint.hashicorp.com](https://checkpoint.hashicorp.com/) to look for [checkpoint.hashicorp.com](https://checkpoint.hashicorp.com/) to look for
new versions of Packer. If you want to disable this for security or privacy new versions of Packer. If you want to disable this for security or privacy
reasons, you can set this environment variable to `1`. reasons, you can set this environment variable to `1`.
- `TMPDIR` - The location of the directory used for temporary files (defaults
to /tmp on Linux/Unix). It might be necessary to customize it when working
with large files since /tmp is a memory-backed filesystem in some Linux
distributions in which case /var/tmp might be preferred.