Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:10:00 +0200 From: "Alistair Phillips" <file13@rentboy.co.za> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@rentboy.co.za> Subject: Re: SoftUpdates on / Message-ID: <001001c2dbd3$c08d8e00$2502100a@alistairp>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:bts@babbleon.org] > Sent: 21 February 2003 09:53 > To: Alistair Phillips; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: SoftUpdates on / > > > > > 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. Hi all, Thanks for all the responses from everyone. I just wanted to confirm that there was nothing wrong with having soft updates installed. As it turns out "portsclean" is your friend! I used that and it freeded up all the missing space :) Thanks a million! Alistair. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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