Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 07:17:25 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: ben@rosengart.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and / Message-ID: <199807220617.HAA12871@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:52:05 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807211649300.6971-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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> On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote:
>
> > 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?).
>
> I booted into single user mode, ran tunefs -n enable on /dev/rsd0a, and
> hit reset. I'm sure something similar could be accomplished if you put
> that in a rc script that ended in reboot -n.
>
> Oddly enough, I only see one:
> ffs_mountfs: superblock updated
> Even though mount shows:
>
> zippy:~/png#mount
> /dev/sd0s1a on / (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 105 async 17719)
> /dev/sd1s1e on /mnt/usr2 (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 2 async 868)
>
> *shrug*
>
> YMMV
My laptop has:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0s1a 1885583 1176081 558656 68% /
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
kernfs 1 1 0 100% /kern
and I don't see any :-) I guess it doesn't report the update for the
root slice.
> - alex
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