From owner-freebsd-small Wed Aug 5 16:27:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14518 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:27:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14513 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:27:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01650; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808052324.QAA01650@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: randal@comtest.com cc: Andrzej Bialecki , dinesh@alphaque.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD now runs in 4MB! In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 12:23:26 -1000." <199808052218.MAA04115@oldyeller.comtest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 16:24:28 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > BTW, I also have noticed something odd. When booting from floppy with a > write protected disk, two write protect error messages comes up when just > mounting the floppy. Why is that? Does mounting the floppy cause a > write to it? This is not good if every time it boots it writes to disk. > This can reduce the life on a IDE Flash drive. Mount the filesystem readonly (-o ro). > I do not notice any write protect errors when mounting from a standard > FreeBSD system only from PicoBSD. If you're mounting as the root filesystem, it's likely that stuff in /dev/ is having its atime/mtime updated. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message