Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:02:19 -1000 From: "Art Neilson, WH7N" <art@hawaii.rr.com> To: chris <chris@aepnet.com>, stable@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991221080219.008eb550@pop-server.hawaii.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912210919170.19435-100000@hyperion.aepnet.c om> References: <19991221155429.B83918@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Well, I did the same way Michel did, about 3-4 months ago.
Worked fine for me I didn't have to boot off any special
diskette or anything, just boot into single and tunefs the
root filesystem.
root@pilikia# mount
/dev/wd0s1a on / (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 9 async 16218)
/dev/wd0s1f on /usr (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 43 async 38046)
/dev/wd0s1e on /var (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 282 async 18376)
procfs on /proc (local)
mfs:33 on /tmp (asynchronous, local, writes: sync 6 async 977)
soft-updates is enabled on all the filesystems on my firewall box.
At 09:21 AM 12/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
>actually, you can't enable it on a mounted disk, you must boot off of the
>kern and mfsroot floppies (and if you're without a net connection to
>another machine, you'll need the fixit floppy (does it have tunefs on
>it?))
>
> -- chris
>
>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.
>>
>> Finally if you are on a rather small disk, for example on a laptop,
>> the config which does not loose space and allows occasional big files
>> in /tmp etc. is to put everything in / flatly. I have done that and
>> never encountered any problem.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Michel TALON
>>
>>
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