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From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Enabling soft updates via SSH
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On Mon, 20 May 2002, BSD Freak wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been able to enable soft updates by booting into single user
> mode, But I remotely manage several servers via SSH and need to enable
> soft updates on the / file system. A reboot is OK, but since I don't
> have console access, single user mode is out of the question. I tried
> a "tunefs -n enable /" while logged in via SSH and it gave me the
> following, but it didn't work:
>
> tunefs: soft updates set
> tunefs: cannot open /dev/ad0s1a: Device busy
>
> Any help would be kindly appreciated.....

When the system is first booted, / is mounted read-only and is in a
suitable state to enable softupdates on.

Look at the top of /etc/rc - in particular, /etc/rc.early is what you're
after.

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