From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 11:53:21 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 93FE537B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:53:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from efwd.dnsix.com (efwd.dnsix.com [216.34.94.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DECA543F75 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:53:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from [24.93.67.83] (helo=ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com) by efwd.dnsix.com with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18mJDj-0004XY-00; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:52:31 -0800 Received: from mail2.nc.rr.com (fe2 [24.93.67.49]) by ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1LJpeo9007903; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:51:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.74.172.220]) by mail2.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:53:34 -0500 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 02F2CBA06; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:52:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: "Alistair Phillips" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: SoftUpdates on / Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:52:45 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <001401c2d9aa$a10d5b30$2502100a@alistairp> In-Reply-To: <001401c2d9aa$a10d5b30$2502100a@alistairp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302211452.45685.bts@babbleon.org> 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 On Friday 21 February 2003 08:10 am, Alistair Phillips wrote: | Hi guys, | | 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. ] Softupdates don't take up any more or less space than not having them; just have "too much stuff" installed. Softupdates can cause *transient" failures to find space, but if you still have too little space after five minutes, then softupdates has nothing to do with it. And softupdates work much *better* on large partitions than small ones; with a 4G partition the transient space loss problem is virtually non-existant; the reason that they disabled by default on / is almost certainly because the / is usually *small*, not large. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message