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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
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Subject: Re: How do I enable softupdates on /
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:

> 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...

1. go to single user mode (shutdown now).
2. Remount / read-only (mount -r /)
3. Enable softupdates (tunefs -n enable /)
3. Remount / read-write (mount /)
4. ^D and go back to multiuser
5. Have fun


			Fer



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