From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 5 14:20:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A60537B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:20:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA74073; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:20:36 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA29725; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:20:36 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200103052220.JAA29725@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Annoying gotcha with soft updates In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:09:13 -0800. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:20:36 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > IS this the case or am I missing something? No, your analysis is correct. This is a well-known gotcha with softupdates and small partitions. In my case, it usually failed installing /bin/sh, with the obvious nasty consequences! Put /tmp on a ramdisk and /var in its own partition and there is no need for softupdates on /. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message