Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 06:45:59 -0500 From: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates (was FreeBSD 2.1.5 Installation - Disk Space) Message-ID: <20011214064559.A50339@tharmas.rintrah.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112131405410.6058-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>; from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu on Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:37:55PM -0800 References: <15384.55429.649720.20833@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112131405410.6058-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:37:55PM -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote: > You can mount a file system read-write or read-only. I think more > and more there's an interest in mounting /usr read-only; but /var is > of little use read-only, as this is where (unless you change it) the > mail spool, printer spool, and log files live. Also if you want to > enable softupdates, if you have only / as a file system, I think you > need to do it on installation (it can be done from sysinstall now) > or you need to be able to "get to it" while it's not mounted and run > tunefs on it. There's more than one way to do that, but I don't > think there's any convenient way. I think someone on the list recently posted this trick to enable softupdates easily on / filesystem. Edit /etc/rc to include /sbin/tunefs -n enable / right before the lines: set -T trap "echo 'Reboot interrupted'; exit 1" 3 I liked that so much I thought it bore repeating. --devin PS I do agree that multiple partitions are a good idea in general. Sometimes, especially when one is new to a platform, it's nice to make one large / partition to avoid multiple reinstallations until you get the sizing just right. But on a production server, you definitely want multiple partitions if, for nothing else, administrative purposes like you said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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