From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 23:25:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.carpoolbc.com (cr45465-a.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.176.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3060237B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 23:25:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (roop@localhost) by gw.carpoolbc.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eAR7QKw06175 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 23:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roop@gw.carpoolbc.com) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 23:26:20 -0800 (PST) From: Roop Nanuwa To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SoftUpdates Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, About softupdates: I've got softupdates running on my /usr partition (using the instructions on mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/softup.html) and I have a simple question: Is there any need to use softupdates on the / or the /var partitions? I know there's very little I/O on these partitions compared to /usr.. but still.. is there any necessity? RSN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message