From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 17 16: 6:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BEDD14F46 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:06:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA81618; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:06:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:06:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199907172306.QAA81618@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Leif Neland" Cc: "FreeBSD Hackers" Subject: Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy References: <007301bed09c$e50777a0$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :I have a machine with two scsi disks, one with /, one with /usr, and no :floppy. :I have turned on softupdates on /usr while usr was unmounted, but I can't :turn on softupdates on /, because it is always mounted. : :Normally the answer would be to boot on a floppy, but the machine doesn't :have a floppydrive. : :Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I have to :either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this machine? : :Leif If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message