DELTA 51150 0 349 SVN† † ‚S‚­,ƒπ‚―}€‚Q‚Qn> Short answer: Soft Updates can usually be safely used on all partitions. Long answer: Soft Updates has two characteristics that may be undesirable on certain partitions. First, a Soft Updates partition has a small chance of losing data during a system crash. The partition w† † † ‚ †/‚Q€uHƒ©”‚ blem is remote, read on entry . If the problem is local, read on entry .