From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 24 14:37:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B027C37B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 14:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 May 2001 21:37:52 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 15:41:39 -0600 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: moligny@kanotech.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: Remount Filesystems Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 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 Not bad, but how do you umount /var or something -- It's in use while in normal mode [?] btw.... how does one tunefs -n enable / without a boot disk/cdrom? can I do mount -ro / while it's already mounted? On 05/24/2001 3:21:36 PM, "Mike Oligny" is quoted as saying: . . . .|I don't believe the whole single-user bit is necessary if you can . . . .|unmount the drive... I'm kind of curious about this, though -- I usually . . . .|do the following: . . . .| . . . .|umount /usr2 ; tunefs -n enable /dev/ad2s1e ; mount /usr2 . . . .| . . . .|Is this bad? . . . .| . . . .|-Mike . . . .| . . . .|-----Original Message----- . . . .|From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz] . . . .|Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 3:11 PM . . . .|To: Chimon Yeung . . . .|Cc: UNIX . . . .|Subject: Re: Remount Filesystems . . . .| . . . .| . . . .|On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:31:47AM -0700, Chimon Yeung wrote: . . . .|> Hello, . . . .|> . . . .|> How do I re-mount all of the filesystems to read-only, enable . . . .|> softupdates on them, and then restore them to read-write mode? . . . .| . . . .|Shutdown down to single user. . . . .|For each file system, . . . .| mount -o ro /filesystem . . . .| tunefs -n enable /filesystem . . . .|-- . . . .|Jonathan Chen . . . .|---------------------------------------------------------------------- . . . .| Opportunities are seldom labeled . . . .| . . . .|To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message . . . .| . . . .|To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message