From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 21 23:56:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23257 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23242 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA08620; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdKV8617; Wed Jul 22 06:44:31 1998 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:44:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Brian Somers cc: Alex , ben@rosengart.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and / In-Reply-To: <199807220617.HAA12871@awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 , , > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message