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Date:      Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:20:58 -0700
From:      David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>
To:        Sasa Stupar <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Q ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tunefs problem
Message-ID:  <35c231bf0510080020g42555b0bpcca3df4727bac683@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <F1C86A8B6BC517CCF7517152@192.168.10.249>
References:  <F1C86A8B6BC517CCF7517152@192.168.10.249>

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On 10/8/05, Sasa Stupar <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net> wrote:
> I am trying to enable tunefs for my filesystem but I get the following:
> -------------
> # tunefs -n enable /
> tunefs: soft updates cannot be enabled until fsck is run
> tunefs: /dev/ad2s1a: failed to write superblock
> -------------
>
> But AFAIK fsck is not running.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Regards,
> Sasa

It means that you need to run fsck on the partition before you can
enable softupdates. Something like "fsck -y /" will do it.



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