Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:11:59 +0000 From: Tofik Suleymanov <tofik@oxygen.az> To: MC <rossiya@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote tunefs -n enable Message-ID: <4409D86F.2000803@oxygen.az> In-Reply-To: <28a99ba50602212307g48db9a53m322fba44eb315a17@mail.gmail.com> References: <28a99ba50602212307g48db9a53m322fba44eb315a17@mail.gmail.com>
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MC wrote: > Hello again > > I have another issue on the same box. The bloke who installed FreeBSD 6.0onto > the machine is a linux man. He didn't know about softupdates nor apparently > does > he know yet about option 4 [read only singule user mode] on the bootloader. > > Consequently he hasn't set softupdates on the main '/' partition > > On Freebsd 4.x from ssh2 I used to: > > mount -fr /dev/ad0s1a / > tunefs -n enable /dev/ad0s1a > mount /dev/ad0s1a / > > but attempting this on FreeBSD 6.x immediately locks up the machines when in > multiuser mode. > On a workstaion I then tried to sneak tunefs into the first lines of > /etc/rc. Unfortunately it seems that > '/' is read/write mounted before /etc/rc runs, so the tunefs just makes an > error and the box boots up > again without softupdates. My question then is how to go about getting the > tunefs line in a startup > script, before the disk is mounted read/write and with realtime access only > in multiuser mode by telnet/ssh2. > > Or perhaps there is another means, this being BSD? Hello, this question should go to questions@freebsd.org list i suppose. Anyways, you can solve your problem with sysinstall.Enter sysinstall, choose configure, then label management.You will see the "Toggle softupdates" (or something similar).This should do the trick.
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