From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 15:53:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7588C37B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6428F43FD7 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.7/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1LNrl4l004690 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:53:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.7/8.12.6/Submit) id h1LNrlY9004687; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:53:47 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SoftUpdates on / References: <003e01c2d9e4$caf463a0$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 21 Feb 2003 18:53:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <003e01c2d9e4$caf463a0$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> Message-ID: <44k7ftjilw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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 "John Straiton" 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 A little out-of-date, even; the filesystem code has recently been adjusted to do garbage collection before reporting an out-of-space problem.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.] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message