From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 21 16:41:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11644 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11589 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:41:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA28604; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:27:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199807212327.AAA28604@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: ben@rosengart.com cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and / In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:59:22 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:27:16 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How do I enable softupdates on a root partition? I looked through the > mailing list archives, because I *know* I saw this go by at one point, > but couldn't find it. > > I'd just start trying different strategies, but this is on a remote > system, and it's already tricky enough. I had to temporarily add a > tunefs command to /etc/rc to get su enabled on /usr (does anyone know a > better way?). Go single-user, sync, tunefs, hit the power off switch. > Ben > > "You have your mind on computers, it seems." -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message