From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 16:42:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28006 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:42:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28000 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:42:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA98330; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:42:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:42:10 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199901120042.QAA98330@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Joseph T. Lee" Cc: Edwin Culp , Sheldon Hearn , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling Softupdates with symlinks? Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> 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. : :-- :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. (Please include original email in any response) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message