From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 7:39:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AC5737B41A for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 07:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21819 invoked by uid 1001); 31 Jan 2002 15:38:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Jan 2002 15:38:58 -0000 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:38:58 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: BSD Freak Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 soft updates In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020131103734.Q21783-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The reason behind not enabling it on root is that the root filesystem is traditionally small, and easy to fill up, and Softupdates will sometimes tell you a partition is full even if it isn't. You should be fine enabling it the way you want to, but if I were you I'd reconsider putting everything on one partition. Ken On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, BSD Freak wrote: > I notice the FreeBSD 4.5 release notes say that sysinstall will now > enable soft updates on all files systems except the root. > > Why is that so? Is it a bad idea to have a root file system with soft > updates? Is it just for compatibility reasons? > > I need to know because I am installing a system where I am using all > the disk space and mounting it as / (except for swap space > ofcourse)..... I know this is a bad idea for various reasons ..... but > I have good reasons for doing this too.... > > So my question is basically should I enable soft updates on my system > which uses the whole disk as the root? > > > > Many thanks..... > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Would you like a mobile office from only $29.95 per year? > Visit http://www.mbox.com.au > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message