From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 5 20:29:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4828715154 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:29:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from street@iname.com) Received: from mired.eh.local ([24.64.136.188]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <19991006032909.NNIA5795.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@mired.eh.local>; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:29:09 -0700 Received: (from kws@localhost) by mired.eh.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA49139; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:29:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kws) To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install trick References: <000101bf0f78$fbe58b40$021d85d1@youwant.to> <199910052142.PAA05137@harmony.village.org> <99Oct6.084624est.40345@border.alcanet.com.au> <199910052302.RAA21667@mt.sri.com> From: Kevin Street Date: 05 Oct 1999 23:29:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of "Tue, 5 Oct 1999 17:02:12 -0600" Message-ID: <87yadhyxob.fsf@mired.eh.local> Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams writes: > > In any case, you should not be doing lots of writes to root, so the > > lack of softupdates should not be a problem. > > So, are you suggesting make /tmp it's own disk, otherwise anytime you do > development alot of writes are done to /. > > And, if you do lots of development, then you'll have the same problem on > /tmp as you did on / unless you waste a huge disk for /tmp. :( You could just symlink /tmp to someplace big and softupdateable. At least then you can share the free space with another big filesystem. The only problem then is that when you boot standalone you either need to be able to mount wherever you've symlinked it into or rm the symlink and mkdir /tmp while you're standalone (and remember to put it back before going multi user). In some ways symlinking is better than having /tmp as a mount point. If it's a real mount point you're likely to create stuff in /tmp while standalone that can't be seen while you're multi user with a file system mounted on top of it. Which leads to "...my / is full and I can't find the files that are using all the space!" -- Kevin Street street@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message