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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Hanif Ladha <hanif@ladha.com>
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Subject: Re: Enabling soft-updates for /
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:56:44PM -0800, Hanif Ladha wrote:
> 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.

Boot in single-user mode, login and do the tunefs-command.
Some people say you shouldn't do softupdates on /, some people say
it is an acceptable risk. See previous discussions to find out what
you think about it.

Edwin
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