On Friday 21 February 2003 08:10 am, Alistair Phillips wrote: | Hi guys,
| | So I enabled SoftUpdates when I was busy with FDISK at the install | time and now it seems like it may have been a bad idea. Now I know | 4GB is not much but it seems that there is no more space left. And | at times df -h will tell me there is -180MB available on / ! [ Dont | get me wrong here, I am | not saying that SoftUpdates is causing me lack of space. ] Softupdates don't take up any more or less space than not having them; just have "too much stuff" installed. Softupdates can cause *transient" failures to find space, but if you still have too little space after five minutes, then softupdates has nothing to do with it. And softupdates work much *better* on large partitions than small ones; with a 4G partition the transient space loss problem is virtually non-existant; the reason that they disabled by default on / is almost certainly because the / is usually *small*, not large. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message