From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 23:16: 8 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 B576337B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:16:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from efwd.dnsix.com (efwd.dnsix.com [216.34.94.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D13A43FBD for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:16:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from file13@rentboy.co.za) Received: from [196.36.160.98] (helo=ctexchg1.foschini.co.za) by efwd.dnsix.com with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18nCq8-0002t4-00 for freebsd-questions@rentboy.co.za; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:15:55 -0800 Received: from alistairp (alistairp.foschini.co.za [10.16.2.37]) by ctexchg1.foschini.co.za with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 1ZZ10FR0; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:11:54 +0200 Message-ID: <001001c2dbd3$c08d8e00$2502100a@alistairp> From: "Alistair Phillips" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: SoftUpdates on / Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:10:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:bts@babbleon.org] > Sent: 21 February 2003 09:53 > To: Alistair Phillips; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: SoftUpdates on / > > > > > 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. ] > > > Softupdates don't take up any more or less space than not > having them; > just have "too much stuff" installed. > > Softupdates can cause *transient" failures to find space, but if you > still have too little space after five minutes, then softupdates has > nothing to do with it. > > And softupdates work much *better* on large partitions than > small ones; > with a 4G partition the transient space loss problem is virtually > non-existant; the reason that they disabled by default on / is almost > certainly because the / is usually *small*, not large. Hi all, Thanks for all the responses from everyone. I just wanted to confirm that there was nothing wrong with having soft updates installed. As it turns out "portsclean" is your friend! I used that and it freeded up all the missing space :) Thanks a million! Alistair. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message