From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 22 16:51:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.lambertfam.org (eqbsd.lambertfam.org [209.142.170.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC8037B41A for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:51:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (laptop [209.142.170.27]) by www.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F06664C1D for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 18:50:52 -0600 (CST) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C02D128B09; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 19:29:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 19:29:03 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IT'S FIXED!! Whew! (was:Make Installworld fills up / ...help!) Message-ID: <20011223002903.GB34036@laptop.lambertfam.org> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C22915C.F31E2C61@attbi.com> <20011220174037.A1142@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3C2294FE.CB900677@attbi.com> <20011220180038.A3775@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3C24B0B9.2597A8D9@attbi.com> <20011222162056.A28561@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011222162056.A28561@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 04:20:56PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > I wonder if we should consider adding a check to > installworld/installkernel to refuse to install on very small / > partitions since the failure mode is really ugly (losing files in /bin > or /sbin). I have a system with and extremely small / partition. I get around this by sitting on another console entering "sync && sync && sync" every few seconds. Would it be possible to check for a small / partition and if it is tight, kick off a small script that forces softupdates to flush all pending updates every 30 seconds or so? This would seem to be better than just leaving the user out in the cold. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin -- Looking for work. lambert@lambertfam.org http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html 2.5 years Sr. SysAdmin experience with FreeBSD in small & medium size ISPs. The last 5 months have included exposure to Solaris 7, True64 5, and Linux. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message