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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:12:19 +0100
From:      Walter Hop <walter@i.r00ted.it>
To:        Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I enable softupdates on /
Message-ID:  <4823504077.20020131181219@i.r00ted.it>
In-Reply-To: <200201311659.g0VGxZU70631@dns2.s.bonet.se>
References:  <200201311659.g0VGxZU70631@dns2.s.bonet.se>

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[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 <walter@binity.com>
 Updated contact information: http://www.binity.com/~walter/


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