From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 20 22:18:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1AD115424 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:18:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:18:12 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Tom" Cc: , "FreeBSD Stable" Subject: RE: SOFTUPDATES Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:18:12 -0800 Message-ID: <000001bf4b7b$28922430$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > And that is very bad. I don't see /tmp on a separate filesystem either. > That makes it worse. When you run out of space on "/", bad things happen. > I can't believe that anyone would recommend a "minimal" amount of space > for root. You need enough space for root so that it never runs out. Well, this is another argument entirely. I agree with you, but nevertheless, a large number of FreeBSD machines are configured this way. Here's another box that I let FreeBSD's installer accept its defaults on: /dev/wd0s1a 31775 12726 16507 44% / /dev/wd0s1f 412967 220902 159028 58% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 29727 4675 22674 17% /var And here's another: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1a 31775 14563 14670 50% / /dev/wd0s1f 1802143 1073924 584048 65% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 29727 2866 24483 10% /var So that's why you may hear people saying you shouldn't enable softupdates on /. If you're clueful enough to understand why you can ignore that advice for your particular machine, then fine. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message