Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:20:36 +1100 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Annoying gotcha with soft updates Message-ID: <200103052220.JAA29725@lightning.itga.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:09:13 -0800.
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> 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
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