From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 7 15:15: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8749F1585B; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:15:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:15:03 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: , Subject: RE: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:15:03 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bf1111$674d5220$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <19991007151100.C68920@dragon.nuxi.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > There should be fairly few writes to the root partition, so having > > An opionion. I use the HP workstation model where my / is 1800M. I have > no use for /var and /usr and find them simply stupid in today's world. > (except for ISP's where there is cause for a septerate /var). > > Lets stick to facts. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) You are not disagreeing with him, David. You are just talking about another scenario other than the one under discussion. He was talking about the case where root is small. This whole discussion was about how softupdates behaves in the subcase of small root partitions. If you have a 1.8Gb root partition that also includes /var and /usr, this whole discussion is irrelevant. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message