From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 21 6:54:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5ED614E94 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 06:54:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.2) with ESMTP id PAA49299 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:54:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id PAA12700 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:54:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from (talon@localhost) by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id PAA83986 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:54:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:54:29 +0100 From: Michel TALON To: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <19991221155429.B83918@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Stable References: <385EFAEF.5F286795@home.com> <000001bf4b6b$c07acb40$021d85d1@youwant.to> <19991221160437.A40524@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991221160437.A40524@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>; from adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr on Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 04:04:37PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To enable softupdates on / is very simple: boot -s at the loader prompt and do tunefs -n enable / It is my understanding that if you forget to enable softupdates in kernel conf the flag is simply not recognized and causes no trouble. Finally if you are on a rather small disk, for example on a laptop, the config which does not loose space and allows occasional big files in /tmp etc. is to put everything in / flatly. I have done that and never encountered any problem. -- Michel TALON To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message