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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: tunefs
To: serges@umr.edu (Doug S.)
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 13:56:48 -0700 (MST)
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> Is there a way under FBSD to 'tunefs' the / filesystem, WITHOUT
> creating another filesystem and without making an existing filesystem
> bootable? 

It should work to tune a mounted file system.  All you are changing is
the flags in the superblock for the file system.

The tuning you do will only affect policy on new files; old files
allocated using the old policy will be left alone.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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