Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:00:05 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <199912220900.KAA14293@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Gregory Bond wrote in list.freebsd-stable:
> > 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.
>
> To be fair to chris, the ability to enable softupdates on RO partitions is
> relatively new. To turn softupdates on for /, you _used_ to have to boot from
> a floppy/CD; nowadays boot -s is enough.
Uhm no, you never had to do that. In the very early days of
soft-updates, you had to boot single-user, then use tunefs on
the root partition (which is mounted read-only at that point),
then press the reset-button.
Of course, you _could_ also boot from floppy or CD (you still
can do that today if you want), but it was not necessary.
Regards
Oliver
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