From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Feb 15 12:45:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from spring.thepond.com (spring.thepond.com [209.122.157.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E2937B401 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:45:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (drunk@localhost) by spring.thepond.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00237; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:49:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bpeisenbraun@yahoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: spring.thepond.com: drunk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:49:52 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Eisenbraun X-X-Sender: To: "R.P. Aditya" Cc: Subject: Re: file location moved... In-Reply-To: <20010215120643.A66650@mighty.grot.org> Message-ID: X-JZP-Disclaimer: "I'm the only one foolish enough to claim these opinions." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, R.P. Aditya wrote: > to turn on softupdates on a filesystem. No doubt, one FAQ will be how to turn > it on the root filesystem...(I can't think of a better way than to boot with a > floppy and turn it on) --in single user mode # mount /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only) # tunefs -n enable / tunefs: soft updates set tunefs: file system reloaded # mount -u / # mount /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only, soft-updates) I'm not sure that this is technically correct, but it has worked for me on multiple machines without any apparent problems. -ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message