From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 9 22:05:23 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 3EF5116A417 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 22:05:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0435513C4D1 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 22:05:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m19M1oWe042060; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 17:01:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id m19M1ocu042059; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 17:01:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 17:01:50 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Joshua Isom Message-ID: <20080209220150.GC41847@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55836b724f9f2f7d35654d7e7c477717@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:05:23 -0000 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. I do it often. ////jerry > amount of the swap partition if it's on the same disk, to keep from > running out of space? It'd probably have to be limited to one disk, > but that wouldn't hinder things too much. Dealing with unmounted > filesystems would be annoying but probably doable without too much risk > of problems(could even use the swap partition, and on say /usr just > have a file for swap?). The most obvious case of how this could be > good would be the root partition when you're updating the system, > especially with debug symbols or perhaps multiple kernels(say a generic > debug, optimized debug, generic, and optimized?). > > The best reason for doing something like this, you can keep the > partitions for "disk optimization" and still have the ease of use of a > single partition like OS X, Ubuntu, or PCBSD. > > Maybe this would be good for FreeBSD 8 or 9? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"