On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:51:18PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: > Here's an idea for FreeBSD that would be practical. Since having > several partitions on the same disk is standard for FreeBSD and most > Unixes, instead of dealing with running out of space on a partition, > when you have gigs available on another, why not allow one partition to > create an overflow file on another partition, or perhaps a dedicated
You can do this alrady. Just move some directory tree in to the large space and create a synlink. I do it often. ////jerry > amount of the swap partition if it's on the same disk, to keep from > running out of space? It'd probably have to be limited to one disk, > but that wouldn't hinder things too much. Dealing with unmounted > filesystems would be annoying but probably doable without too much risk > of problems(could even use the swap partition, and on say /usr just > have a file for swap?). The most obvious case of how this could be > good would be the root partition when you're updating the system, > especially with debug symbols or perhaps multiple kernels(say a generic > debug, optimized debug, generic, and optimized?). > > The best reason for doing something like this, you can keep the > partitions for "disk optimization" and still have the ease of use of a > single partition like OS X, Ubuntu, or PCBSD. > > Maybe this would be good for FreeBSD 8 or 9? > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
