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Date:      Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:33:16 +0200
From:      Gabriel Ambuehl <gaml@buz.ch>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: softupdates on /?
Message-ID:  <154164977656.20021019133316@buz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20021019112947.GA66358@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
References:  <158158214781.20021019114034@buz.ch> <20021019112947.GA66358@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>

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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

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