From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 12:38:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BE314F7D for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00741; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:31:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907191931.MAA00741@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Luoqi Chen Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, leifn@neland.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:05:06 EDT." <199907191505.LAA24870@lor.watermarkgroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:31:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should > > be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot. > > > > -Matt > > Matthew Dillon > > > > > It's a little bit simpler than that: in single user mode, tunefs -n enable / > no reboot is necessary (tunefs reloads the fs after it makes changes on disk). Unfortunately it doesn't first check to see if the fs is already loaded (so the reload generates a scary error message on all the other fs'es). -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message