From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 5 23:51:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B63471571B for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA35640; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:49:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA15085; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:03:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910060603.HAA15085@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install trick In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Oct 1999 17:02:12 MDT." <199910052302.RAA21667@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 07:03:02 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > In any case, you should not be doing lots of writes to root, so the > > lack of softupdates should not be a problem. > > So, are you suggesting make /tmp it's own disk, otherwise anytime you do > development alot of writes are done to /. > > And, if you do lots of development, then you'll have the same problem on > /tmp as you did on / unless you waste a huge disk for /tmp. :( Ah, but if you have /tmp on your root partition, you should really have more than 12M of free space: $ du -sk /bin /sbin 3247 /bin 8519 /sbin :-) Interestingly enough, I believe there's another ``bug'' here in the softupdates code. If softupdates is short on required disk space, it sould at least go through the todo list and optimise out what it can, possibly reducing the disk space requirements. If it did this, repeating the make install a few times should eventually work as it will ultimately end up overwriting things with exactly the same data and optimising the whole operation out - but this isn't currently the case. > Nate -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message