Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:52:45 -0500 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Alistair Phillips" <file13@rentboy.co.za>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@rentboy.co.za> Subject: Re: SoftUpdates on / Message-ID: <200302211452.45685.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <001401c2d9aa$a10d5b30$2502100a@alistairp> References: <001401c2d9aa$a10d5b30$2502100a@alistairp>
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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
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