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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
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Subject: Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> So to make softupdates work, the partition should be reformatted under
> 4.5, which means that after an upgrade from an earlier FreeBSD version
> (without disk reformatting) the soft updates will not work, is it true?

no, it is not true. Up to 4.4 you don't need to re create the file system
and I dont see why this should change.

to enable soft updates on a file system, unmount it and run a
# tunefs -n enable <FS>


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