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Date:      Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:58:53 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Hanif Ladha <hanif@ladha.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Enabling soft-updates for /
Message-ID:  <20020219215852.GC18746@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020219215644.GA2017@ladha.com>
References:  <20020219215644.GA2017@ladha.com>

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In the last episode (Feb 19), Hanif Ladha said:
> This should be easy, but...
> 
> I would like to enable soft-updates for /.  However man tunefs states
> that the filesystem needs to be unmounted.  So the goofy question is how
> do I umount / and run tunefs -n enable /.  Or have missed the boat
> completely.

The easiest way is to boot single-user (hit space at the countdown on
bootup, then run 'boot -s'), and run tunefs there.  It actually doesn't
need to be unmounted; just not mounted R/W.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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