From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 22 1: 0:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19681540A for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 01:00:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14293 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:00:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:00:05 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912220900.KAA14293@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message