From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Nov 29 14: 0:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from strange.eng.utoledo.edu (strange.eng.utoledo.edu [131.183.18.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE55737B405 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:00:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from strange.eng.utoldeo.edu ([131.183.21.43]) by strange.eng.utoledo.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/1.1) with SMTP id RAA21787; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:00:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200111292200.RAA21787@strange.eng.utoledo.edu> Received: by strange.eng.utoldeo.edu (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:00:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:00:16 -0500 From: rafege@mail.com (G.E. Rafe) To: john@utzweb.net Subject: Re: possibly stupid question about tunefs softupdates RE: Extreme filesystem sloth Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org !> Turn softupdates on. !> (man tunefs) ! !umm, do i need to do this *once* for each partition until i reinstall or !do i need to do it every time i reboot? Yes, I was following this recent thread, too. Reboot to single-user mode, run "tunefs -n enable" on your filesystems, then restart the system into its normal operating mode. "tunefs -p" should report that softupdates are now enabled. -- G.E. Rafe rafege@mail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message