From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 12:42:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.neland.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C48A15286 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:42:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA14708; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:41:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <012801bed21e$bafdce40$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> From: "Leif Neland" To: "Stephen McKay" Cc: References: <199907172306.QAA81618@apollo.backplane.com> <199907190725.RAA13642@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> Subject: Sv: softupdates on root partition, no floppy Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:39:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Stephen McKay > 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