On Jan 08 08:31:26, n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: > Another place where softdeps will sometimes bite you is when you > unpack tar balls that overwrite existing files -- simple thought > process says, "as long as you have enough space to cover the growth, > fine". Softdeps might surprise you. You may get an "out of disk > space" error, and a minute later, see much more space than you > thought you could ever need to accomplish the task, once the deletions > have time to take effect.
Another case of the same (imho) is pkg_add -u when /usr/local is tight.