From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 21 23:21:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16566 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:21:18 -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 XAA16510 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:21:02 -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 HAA12871; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 07:17:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199807220617.HAA12871@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alex cc: ben@rosengart.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and / In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:52:05 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 07:17:25 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- 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