Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:18:00 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: flag <flag@libero.it> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, danh@gelatinous.com, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Subject: Re: softupdates and "/" Message-ID: <XFMail.001215151800.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012151933500.175-100000@localhost>
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On 15-Dec-00 flag wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> * danh@gelatinous.com <danh@gelatinous.com> [001211 11:50] wrote: >> > Hi, is there anything wrong with enabling softupdates >> > on my / partition? >> >> Yes and no. > > uhhhm....anyway i'm unable to set softupdates on / cause tunefs needs a > umounted partition and / is always mounted... Umm, if / is mounted read-only you can tunefs it. i.e., in single user mode after boot, or drop to single user and use 'mount -o ro -u /' then do the tunefs. However, it doesn't buy you much on /, and there is still some risk with it, so I'd not recommend it for /. > how have you done it? > > thanks > > Paolo -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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