From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 14 15:42:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15237 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15211 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20362; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:34:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd020360; Sun Jun 14 22:34:18 1998 Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:34:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: John Polstra cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: personal use of softupdates In-Reply-To: <199806142230.PAA00726@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG boot single-user tunefs raw device hit reset On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, John Polstra wrote: > In article , > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > and use tunefs -n enable > > on the unmounted filesystem to enable it. > > Is there some tricky way to do this on the root filesystem without > having to boot from a floppy? Root is mounted even if you boot > single-user, so tunefs says "device busy" if you try to use it on > the block device. It's possible to use it on the character device, > but then the change doesn't stick. > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message