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Date:      21 Feb 2003 18:53:47 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SoftUpdates on /
Message-ID:  <44k7ftjilw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <003e01c2d9e4$caf463a0$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com>
References:  <003e01c2d9e4$caf463a0$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com>

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"John Straiton" <jsmailing@clickcom.com> writes:

> > On Friday 21 February 2003 08:10 am, Alistair Phillips wrote:
> > | Hi guys,
> > 
> > |
> > | So I enabled SoftUpdates when I was busy with FDISK at the install 
> > | time and now it seems like it may have been a bad idea.  Now I know 
> > | 4GB is not much but it seems that there is no more space 
> > left.  And at 
> > | times df -h will tell me there is -180MB available on / !  
> > [  Dont get 
> > | me wrong here, I am not saying that SoftUpdates is causing 
> > me lack of 
> > | space. ]
> 
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFTUPDATES
> 
> Right from the horse's mouth so to speak as to the odd disk space
> results of using soft-updates.

A little out-of-date, even; the filesystem code has recently been
adjusted to do garbage collection before reporting an out-of-space
problem.  [Not that this has much effect on the concerns in question.]

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