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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:55:02 +0300
From: Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
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Subject: Re: running tunefs during boot???
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 06:18:32PM +0300, ODHIAMBO Washington
<wash@wananchi.com> wrote:

> For some strange reason, I would like to run `tunefs -n disable /` during the
> bootup process, just before the file systems are mounted.
> How can I safely achieve this?

You cannot access the tunefs binary if the / filesystem is not
mounted. You can use tunefs on the read-only mounted filesystem, for
this purpose check out man rc.early(8) and look into /etc/rc.
-- 
Vallo Kallaste