Jeremy C. Reed said:

>Except the root / file system. FreeBSD sysinstall doesn't use softupdates
>for / by default. At first because of reliability concerns (if I remember
>correctly), but now because softupdates benefit of faster write access
>doesn't make much sense on a filesystem that is rarely written too (since
>sysinstall creates /tmp and /var and home on separate partitions).

walrus# df
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a    253678   54304  179080    23%    /
devfs               1       1       0   100%    /dev
/dev/da0s1e    253678      12  233372     0%    /tmp
/dev/da0s1f   7678652 1896490 5167870    27%    /usr
/dev/da0s1d    253678   10086  223298     4%    /var

For some reason they like /usr/home.
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