From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 30 16: 6:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3287137B977 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:02:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 96123 invoked by uid 100); 31 Jan 2002 00:01:43 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15448.35175.460453.211029@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:01:43 -0600 To: Varshavchick Alexander Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5 In-Reply-To: <76760960@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-RC-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Varshavchick Alexander types: > 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? False. To make softupdates work, all you need to do is run "tunefs -n enable" on the file system while it is unmounted or mounted r/o. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message