Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:25:06 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy Message-ID: <199907190725.RAA13642@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <199907172306.QAA81618@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:06:38 -0700" References: <199907172306.QAA81618@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: >:Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I have to >:either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this machine? > > If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should > be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot. I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I recommend people leave root alone. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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