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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Brian Feldman <brianfeldman@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: personal use of softupdates
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more likely 
"how about I fix the code that writes to a readonly partition?"


On 14 Jun 1998, Brian Feldman wrote:

> Perhaps this is out of my league by quite a bit, but how about writing a little program to find and modify the in-core superblock, as per something like what disklabel can do? (I think...)
> 
> -Brian
> 
> 
> > the reset shouldn't be needed but unmounting a readonly partition
> > still writes back the superblock.. (and upgrading includes a pseudo
> > unmount.)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, John Polstra wrote:
> > 
> > > [Enabling softupdates on root filesystem]
> > > 
> > > > boot single-user
> > > > tunefs raw device
> > > > hit reset
> > > 
> > > Thanks.  Makes perfect sense now that you spell it out.
> > > 
> > > John
> > > 
> > 
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