Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:13:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Otter <otterr@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates and fsck Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912281410460.72221-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <3867EE89.D806A0B7@bellsouth.net>
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On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Otter wrote: >that, you should be ready to enable it. You'll find that softupdates makes the >filesystem a little more forgiving in the event you should have one of those >unclean shutdowns. My only question concerning this would be the enabling of my / >partitition... since the slice should be unmounted when you enable it. Can this be >done from a live CD? I think it can be done from either the CD or a fixit floppy. But there are many people who believe root should be left alone and run without softupdates, since there should be very few writes to that partition anyway. I decided that makes sense, so my 80 meg root partition has soft-updates disabled, and is mounted to minimize writes. -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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