From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 19 4:35:17 2002 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 7A8A137B401 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 04:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0311C43E8A for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 04:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gaml@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 4433 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2002 11:35:12 -0000 Received: from dclient217-162-94-86.hispeed.ch (HELO gaxp1800.root.li) (217.162.94.86) by 0 with SMTP; 19 Oct 2002 11:35:12 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:33:16 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.60q) Educational Reply-To: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <154164977656.20021019133316@buz.ch> To: Matthew Seaman Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: softupdates on /? In-Reply-To: <20021019112947.GA66358@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <158158214781.20021019114034@buz.ch> <20021019112947.GA66358@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Matthew, Saturday, October 19, 2002, 1:29:47 PM, you wrote: > For general use, softupdates on the root partition is not a problem. > If your root partition is big enough to let you do whatever you need > to by way of updating your system despite enabling softupdates, then > you can turn it on with impunity. Of course, the size of the contents > of the root partition tends to grow over time, so you may have to > revisit that decision later on. That's exactly why I have root Partitions of about 300MB right now. Vastly over what's ever going to be needed but in the time of sub 100$ 80GB drives, this isn't of much concern to me anymore. Thanks for the explanations! Best regards, Gabriel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2i iQEVAwUBPbE08cZa2WpymlDxAQHp4Af/SnyRiG6sKNZ6Bu9V6usaOkSTmTwGBOWn oqUh1TrUzJ2fzXn2CCDMEU+hV4swRroEOhnMannpQuN9hJlaEg71ABpNL8X+GSBT kcnVeC39jYCo3nBNO737huNAJ8pDKK/WB8odksQTizmzLgWQG0qUMLDqXihd2OeE U/P8CVHsYOsQBLqVcqnXQl4ykA9OjNriHkV9vZwlQIB4gkfZh5w+cnZ/wPqwJj+d 7eNcmNwLhr5kEl7i5LgiCnDsu+cDHg7G3O/bhQWDseZL2keq8mdxB51uGp8tzW3I 6c6pxz2ViAFNLK55dJOkUsDpnNyjiTB0mKXjMXOSoiuh8LXAKIdfZQ== =U4Zs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message