From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 15 15:18: 3 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 15:18:00 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4FC37B69C for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:18:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eBFNHgE33101; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:17:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:18:00 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: flag Subject: Re: softupdates and "/" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, danh@gelatinous.com, Alfred Perlstein Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Dec-00 flag wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >> * 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 -- 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