From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 24 15:27:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E158837B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 15:27:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4OMOFk14425; Thu, 24 May 2001 18:24:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B0D8A80.596CC3B7@iowna.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:26:09 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Peter , moligny@kanotech.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remount Filesystems References: <20010525094056.B37339@itouchnz.itouch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:41:39PM -0600, Peter wrote: > > 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? > > Yes. Althought IIRC, it's better to reboot the box after the tunefs on > the / filesystem. I don't understand why you'd bother with softupdates on / anyway? Just from my perspective, I try to keep the / fs as reliable as possible and, although softupdates is very reliable, it does have a slightly higher incidence of crash corruption than standard sync. Besides, if your partitioning is done intelligently, you usually aren't writing to / much so lower write performance doesn't really hurt anything. Just some philosophical musings. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message