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To: George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au>
Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES?
References: <11983.928491812@dstc.edu.au>
From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 04 Jun 1999 18:22:09 +0200
In-Reply-To: George Michaelson's message of "Fri, 04 Jun 1999 20:23:32 +1000"
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George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au> writes:
> Also, some commentary on the advisability of enabling softupdates on /
> for large single-partition configs would be useful: since it demands 
> unmounted fs to apply tunefs to the device, this is "challenging" at
> first glance.

No. Boot in single-user mode, and type 'tunefs -n enable /' *before*
mounting / read-write. Then proceed into multi-user mode.

DES
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