On 09/02/2008, Joshua Isom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > 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.
> > My idea would eliminate that work around and make it automatic. Who > actually waits to constantly look at their disk usage and try and > figure out if they have enough space left on their 512 meg partition > when they have 200 gigs free on another? I certainly do not want some brain-dead algorithm stuffing up every slice on my system because some other brain-dead algorithm decided to fill /tmp -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
