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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:44:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>, ben@rosengart.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: softupdates and / 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980721234332.25908G-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807220617.HAA12871@awfulhak.org>

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you are right.. the update doesn't get reported.. it's a debug print
anyhow and should go away.

(actually maybe if it DID get printed teh problem wouldn'e exist :-)

julian

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Brian Somers wrote:

> > 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 <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
>       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
> 
> 
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