From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 5:57:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8ED737B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:57:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from efwd.dnsix.com (efwd.dnsix.com [216.34.94.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD1A43FCB for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:57:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from file13@rentboy.co.za) Received: from [196.36.160.98] (helo=ctexchg1.foschini.co.za) by efwd.dnsix.com with smtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 18mDfA-00019l-00 for freebsd-questions@rentboy.co.za; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:57:16 -0800 Received: from alistairp (alistairp.foschini.co.za [10.16.2.37]) by ctexchg1.foschini.co.za with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 1ZZ19X15; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:11:57 +0200 Message-ID: <001401c2d9aa$a10d5b30$2502100a@alistairp> From: "Alistair Phillips" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: SoftUpdates on / Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:10:36 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys, I know that in the mailing list a while ago people were wondering why SoftUpdates were not enabled by default at install time on the / partition. Now I installed FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE into a 4GB slice. I did not create seperate bits for / or /usr and such - but one large big space. So I enabled SoftUpdates when I was busy with FDISK at the install time and now it seems like it may have been a bad idea. Now I know 4GB is not much but it seems that there is no more space left. And at times df -h will tell me there is -180MB available on / ! [ Dont get me wrong here, I am not saying that SoftUpdates is causing me lack of space. ] Now I know that I should just du to see whats taking up the space and I will investigate that this weekend - but I was wondering if it was a bad idea to have gone and enabled SoftUpdates on / seeing as it is one big "slice"/"partitoin"? This machine is just a setup that I've got to play with - I'm sharing it with WinXP but would like to move across to FreeBSD full time. So I have no problems with having to re-install it! Kind regards, Alistair. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message