From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 17:23: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bomber.avantgo.com (ws1.avantgo.com [207.214.200.194]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530644317 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:23:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from river ([10.0.128.30]) by bomber.avantgo.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5) with SMTP id 130; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:18:26 -0800 Message-ID: <0bdb01bf7365$2c465080$1e80000a@avantgo.com> From: "Scott Hess" To: "R Joseph Wright" , References: <38A2103E.815B0C4C@nwlink.com> Subject: Re: softupdates and async Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:21:36 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "R Joseph Wright" wrote: > Is it okay to have both on the same filesystem? No, you cannot run both on the same filesystem. [Aside: what would be the point? async+softupdates==async.] > And, how do I go about > enabling softupdates on my / partition? Since softupdates is enabled via tunefs, your best bet is to drop the disk in another system and tunefs it from there. OTOH, if you've followed the various partitioning recommendations, your / filesystem is small and essentially read-only, so softupdates won't do squat for it. Later, scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message