Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 07:03:02 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install trick Message-ID: <199910060603.HAA15085@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Oct 1999 17:02:12 MDT." <199910052302.RAA21667@mt.sri.com>
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> > In any case, you should not be doing lots of writes to root, so the
> > lack of softupdates should not be a problem.
>
> So, are you suggesting make /tmp it's own disk, otherwise anytime you do
> development alot of writes are done to /.
>
> And, if you do lots of development, then you'll have the same problem on
> /tmp as you did on / unless you waste a huge disk for /tmp. :(
Ah, but if you have /tmp on your root partition, you should really
have more than 12M of free space:
$ du -sk /bin /sbin
3247 /bin
8519 /sbin
:-)
Interestingly enough, I believe there's another ``bug'' here in the
softupdates code. If softupdates is short on required disk space, it
sould at least go through the todo list and optimise out what it can,
possibly reducing the disk space requirements. If it did this,
repeating the make install a few times should eventually work as it
will ultimately end up overwriting things with exactly the same data
and optimising the whole operation out - but this isn't currently the
case.
> Nate
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