Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:39:08 +0200 From: "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk> To: "Stephen McKay" <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Sv: softupdates on root partition, no floppy Message-ID: <012801bed21e$bafdce40$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> References: <199907172306.QAA81618@apollo.backplane.com> <199907190725.RAA13642@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>
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From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> > On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > >:Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I have to > >:either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this machine? > > > > If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should > > be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot. > > I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete > behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't > gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I recommend > people leave root alone. > Well, this disk is 4G and has only one partition, containing both / and /usr, so I think I may benefit from softupdates. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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