Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:40:25 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <199912211640.RAA02499@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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chris wrote in list.freebsd-stable:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Michel TALON wrote:
> > To enable softupdates on / is very simple: boot -s at the loader prompt
> > and do
> >
> > tunefs -n enable /
> >
> > It is my understanding that if you forget to enable softupdates in
> > kernel conf the flag is simply not recognized and causes no trouble.
That's correct.
> actually, you can't enable it on a mounted disk, you must boot off of the
> kern and mfsroot floppies
That's not correct. It is enough if the filesystem is mounted
read-only. For the root filesystem, the easiest way to
accomplish that is to boot to single-user mode, as Michel Talon
wrote.
Regards
Oliver
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