Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:18:12 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Tom" <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: <tsikora@powerusersbbs.com>, "FreeBSD Stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <000001bf4b7b$28922430$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912202206230.2093-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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> And that is very bad. I don't see /tmp on a separate filesystem either. > That makes it worse. When you run out of space on "/", bad things happen. > I can't believe that anyone would recommend a "minimal" amount of space > for root. You need enough space for root so that it never runs out. Well, this is another argument entirely. I agree with you, but nevertheless, a large number of FreeBSD machines are configured this way. Here's another box that I let FreeBSD's installer accept its defaults on: /dev/wd0s1a 31775 12726 16507 44% / /dev/wd0s1f 412967 220902 159028 58% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 29727 4675 22674 17% /var And here's another: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1a 31775 14563 14670 50% / /dev/wd0s1f 1802143 1073924 584048 65% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 29727 2866 24483 10% /var So that's why you may hear people saying you shouldn't enable softupdates on /. If you're clueful enough to understand why you can ignore that advice for your particular machine, then fine. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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