From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 10 02:23:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7A216A417 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:23:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73BC413C448 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:23:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so3240598rvb.43 for ; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:23:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=QWjsdsvvjfBwoSjgHfVDAM/WLF6vQREXBQEbZgU7MgA=; b=H0CxUQvKQ15L3BLnpimbRUdisi6IRjetEpE0sWYAM/NJVnnpQhOb/wSLj56Kia+Ow8tw48OL75NZkufrdDfoOwUGyT1mVFzljtvuBIBWdP/Qoj5zQiKqBnfkNhP6QHjRDxIthHI6pPLWXv3IhL5sGNJX9UZHVw2QFjjyObGyNjo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TyIyTZnPtyV/UBrAFsKBarNJTrd9zAgUCgaEZ9x+cMnfnXU/99OwKJ+Z7eA9qMlEfju6xYmhFKFYqrPp26jOvjYyFlhy4nmfdkbct3pcKMkZVfg//T/IEwQv/WcZJtdrtu5IM2fMPWntXyWDNaVoP45tc2v3F4EKnXMHlRYU4LY= Received: by 10.141.129.14 with SMTP id g14mr9630387rvn.274.1202610187959; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.141.7 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 18:23:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:23:07 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Joshua Isom" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:23:09 -0000 On 09/02/2008, Joshua Isom 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 -- --