From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 9:13:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8821037B404 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:13:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from unity.zacha.xs4all.nl (zacha.xs4all.nl [213.84.201.224]) by smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g0VHDXXC095434; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:13:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from silver (silver.zacha.xs4all.nl [172.23.3.20]) by unity.zacha.xs4all.nl (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0VHEWu14228; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:14:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from walter@i.r00ted.it) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:12:19 +0100 From: Walter Hop X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Educational Reply-To: walter@i.r00ted.it X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <4823504077.20020131181219@i.r00ted.it> To: Per olof Ljungmark Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I enable softupdates on / In-Reply-To: <200201311659.g0VGxZU70631@dns2.s.bonet.se> References: <200201311659.g0VGxZU70631@dns2.s.bonet.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 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 [in reply to peo@intersonic.se, 31/01/2002] > On an existing system, how do I enable softupdates for the / partition? > It appears it cannot be made while its mounted so it looks like a > chicken-and-egg problem... The best thing is to break off the boot procedure and boot into single user mode with: ``boot -s''. Then, with the root partition mounted read-only, you can tunefs it just like another filesystem! -- Walter Hop Updated contact information: http://www.binity.com/~walter/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message