From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 2:51: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE5B37B416 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 02:50:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from geocities.com ([24.78.180.186]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011118105056.PNUB761.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@geocities.com> for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 02:50:56 -0800 Message-ID: <3BF7932F.8894FEE9@geocities.com> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 02:53:35 -0800 From: steve X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soft update questions. References: <001801c17002$5ce82dd0$3000a8c0@sickness> <3BF76FE3.1A3FC020@geocities.com> <20011118103305.A12483@student.uu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks Dude. Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:22:59AM -0800, steve wrote: > > Hello, I have a few questions about soft updates. > > > > [1] I did the following to enable soft updates > > - hit space bar during boot up > > - boot -s to enter single user mode > > - hit enter to accept default shell > > - tunefs -n enable / > > - tunefs -n enable /usr > > - tunefs -n enable /var > > - tunefs -n enable /tmp <--- *** > > - reboot > > > > When I do the above, for /tmp, I get: > > tunefs: /tmp : not a block or character device > > I guess /tmp is not a filesystem but just a normal directory. > What is the contents of /etc/fstab ? Oops, you're right. There is no /tmp mount point in /etc/fstab. > > > > > [2] I read that once tunefs is enabled, it stays enabled > > even after reboot. But not after power off/on right? > > Yes, it does stay enabled. If softupdates is enabled or not is stored on > the disk. > > > > > [3] Where in /etc should I put a script to enable soft updates > > during boot up? > > Nowhere. It is not necessary. If in doubt just give the command 'mount' > which shows all mounted filesystems and is softupdates is enabled it will > say so. > You're right again. /dev/ad2s2a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad2s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad2s2e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) Thanks again. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message