Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:23:07 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Joshua Isom" <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD Message-ID: <d7195cff0802091823l4796bf91y8858450681b88f08@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c03819587056baebbe97c68e72cf5094@gmail.com> References: <50460.33951.qm@web34512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080206205042.H4868@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080207151415.06393db1@meijome.net> <20080207092634.J22656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <55836b724f9f2f7d35654d7e7c477717@gmail.com> <20080209220150.GC41847@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <c03819587056baebbe97c68e72cf5094@gmail.com>
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On 09/02/2008, Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:51:18PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: > > > >> Here's an idea for FreeBSD that would be practical. Since having > >> several partitions on the same disk is standard for FreeBSD and most > >> Unixes, instead of dealing with running out of space on a partition, > >> when you have gigs available on another, why not allow one partition > >> to > >> create an overflow file on another partition, or perhaps a dedicated > > > > You can do this alrady. > > Just move some directory tree in to the large space and create a > > synlink. > > My idea would eliminate that work around and make it automatic. Who > actually waits to constantly look at their disk usage and try and > figure out if they have enough space left on their 512 meg partition > when they have 200 gigs free on another? I certainly do not want some brain-dead algorithm stuffing up every slice on my system because some other brain-dead algorithm decided to fill /tmp -- --
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