From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 13:59: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B4837B417 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1JLwrs89162; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:58:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:58:53 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Hanif Ladha Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling soft-updates for / Message-ID: <20020219215852.GC18746@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020219215644.GA2017@ladha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020219215644.GA2017@ladha.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message