From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 22 18:42: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F38B1574B for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:42:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max8-62.gbis.net [207.228.62.62]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA03654; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA12930; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <012301bf4cef$3fde6f20$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Mark Ovens" , Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:28:03 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Did ``boot -s'' and ran tunefs but got an error: > >Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: ># pwd >/ ># tunefs -n enable /usr >tunefs: soft updates set >tunefs: /dev/rda1s1e: reload: Invalid argument > >What caused this? There's no reference in the manpage. I've seen it on some IDE drives, and not on some other IDE drives...in each case softupdates was indeed enabled. I've heard from others on the list that the error message is harmless, although no one said exactly what was going on. --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message