From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 21 10: 2:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hawaii.rr.com (hnlmail2.hawaii.rr.com [24.25.227.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBD4155B9 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:02:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from art@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from taz ([24.31.76.79]) by hawaii.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:01:50 -1000 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19991221080219.008eb550@pop-server.hawaii.rr.com> X-Sender: art@pop-server.hawaii.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:02:19 -1000 To: chris , stable@freebsd.org From: "Art Neilson, WH7N" Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <19991221155429.B83918@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message >> >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- __ / ) _/_ It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. /--/ __ / Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, / (_/ (_<__ Instead of theories to suit facts. -- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia" Arthur W. Neilson III, WH7N Bank of Hawaii Tech Support art@hawaii.rr.com, art@boh.com, ah6pz@arrl.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message