From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 30 18:10: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chivas.oneill.dhs.org (chivas.oneill.dhs.org [65.65.85.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBA837B8EB for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:09:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from v812r.seanoneill.info (dhcp1.NONROUTABLE [192.168.2.1]) by chivas.oneill.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5291760D; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:09:14 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020130200125.00ab3240@postoffice.swbell.net> X-Sender: swoneill@postoffice.swbell.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:09:13 -0600 To: Kenneth Culver From: Sean O'Neill Subject: Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5 Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020130160800.T18721-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Really? I was reading doing the following to enable softupdates works: mount -u -r tunefs -n enable mount -u -w I think the above commands were what I used - pretty close to it anyway. Its been a while since I played with this. I tested it on my system and it worked. Of course, I did this in single user mode. At 04:09 PM 1/30/2002 -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Hi people, > > > > 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? > >That is not true... you have to boot the system from a floppy and then do >a 'tunefs -n enable' on the /dev entry for that partition. > >Ken > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - ........................................................ ......... ..- -. .. -..- .-. ..- .-.. . ... ............ .-- .. -. -... .-.. --- .-- ... -.. .-. --- --- .-.. ... Sean O'Neill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message