From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 2 9:51:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finland.ispro.net.tr (finland.ispro.net.tr [195.174.18.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37F2155B6 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 09:51:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from ispro.net.tr (dyn-0-023.hki.netti.fi [195.16.195.24]) by finland.ispro.net.tr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA93062; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:41:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Message-ID: <37CEA8E3.EFFBFEC1@ispro.net.tr> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 19:42:11 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates: how to check status of? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well when I was trying tunefs using something like tunefs /dev/da1s1a was causing the same error message you had but when I use tunefs /dev/da1 it was working just fine... Also even in single user mode tunefs cant work if you do not umount the filesystem! The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:34:54AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > > > Is there a way of finding out if softupdates are enabled on a file system? > > > > > tunefs(8), flag `-p'. > > hub# tunefs -p / > tunefs: cannot work on read-write mounted file system > hub# tunefs -p /news > tunefs: cannot work on read-write mounted file system > hub# > > mount did the trick though...the above must have to be run in single-user > mode :( > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message