"John Straiton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. ] > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#SAFE-SOFTUPDATES > > Right from the horse's mouth so to speak as to the odd disk space > results of using soft-updates.
A little out-of-date, even; the filesystem code has recently been adjusted to do garbage collection before reporting an out-of-space problem. [Not that this has much effect on the concerns in question.] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
