Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:42:10 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Joseph T. Lee" <nugundam@la.best.com> Cc: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx>, Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates with symlinks? Message-ID: <199901120042.QAA98330@apollo.backplane.com>
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:> To permanently enable soft updates on that filesystem (or at least until
:> a corresponding ``tunefs -n disable'' is done).
:
:For softupdates on /, since you can't umount it, it's something like
:tunefs -n enable /, and then hit the reset key.. preferably in single
:user mode.
:
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:Joseph nugundam =best=com==/==\=IIGS=/==\=Playstation=/==\=Civic HX CVT=/==\
No no ... don't hit the reset key. If you make a mistake and hit reset
just as the HD is writing a sector, you'll loose the sector (or worse).
HD's do *NOT* have enough capacitance on the power bus to finish the
write. They really don't ... it's an computer geek's urban myth.
Instead, use 'reboot -n'.
If that fails, for gods sakes, use a floppy boot or boot into a CD
( -C at the boot: prompt with the correct CDRom in the drive. You can
do this from a floppy boot: prompt/kernel, the BIOS does not have
to recognize the CD so it works with SCSI CD's ).... then sd0s1a will
not be mounted at all and you can tunefs it to turn on softupdates.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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