From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 22 15:59:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52290155A7 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:59:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01316; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:03:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912230003.QAA01316@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tom Cc: Ben WIlliams , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[4]: SOFTUPDATES In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:09:43 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:03:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ben WIlliams wrote: > > > Tuesday, December 21, 1999 > > So that's a "Yes you need [br]oot & fixit"? (I actually tried it > > with wd0s1a too and got the same effect.) I'll just take my disks next > > time I go up to see the router/webserver/mailserver(pop&smtp)/ > > pain-in-my-ass box and be done with it. > > > > Thanks for the input. > > > > No, you just need to use the correct device. I just did a server today, > I booted single user and turned softupdates on for ALL filesystems, > including root. Just in case nobody has noticed, you can pass a mountpoint as an argument to tunefs and it will (mostly) correctly guess the device (by reading /etc/fstab). ie. one says tunefs -n enable /usr rather than guessing at which device to use. Much more robust. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message