From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 6:13:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2275E15435 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 06:13:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 122xNa-0005wR-00; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:13:38 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA72241; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:13:38 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:13:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Otter Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates and fsck In-Reply-To: <3867EE89.D806A0B7@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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