From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 8 9:34:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5DA15823 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02503; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA17978; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:34:30 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: David Schwartz Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: {a}sync updates (was Re: make install trick) Message-ID: <19991008093430.A17955@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19991007151100.C68920@dragon.nuxi.com> <000001bf1111$674d5220$021d85d1@youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <000001bf1111$674d5220$021d85d1@youwant.to> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 03:15:03PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > > 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 > 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. This discussion was NOT about "how softupdates behaves in the subcase of small root partitions" Imp was having problems in the face of softupdates on a full /. The problem exists *reguardless* of how big / is, the issues is % free. > If you have a 1.8Gb root partition that also includes /var and /usr, this > whole discussion is irrelevant. Why?? Because / can now not fill up? I've installed enough KDE/GNOME/teTeX/etc... ports (plus /usr/{ports,src}) that I have acutally filled it up before. (And before I'm attacked for my organization -- if I can get it back from the CDROM and it lives in /usr, it is on the / file systems which I don't back up, as there is no use to.) -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message