From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 14 16:26:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25288 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 16:26:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25282 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 16:26:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karl@Mars.mcs.net) Received: from Mars.mcs.net (karl@Mars.mcs.net [192.160.127.85]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id SAA20375; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:25:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Mars.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) id SAA28823; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:25:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980614182551.39828@mcs.net> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:25:51 -0500 From: Karl Denninger To: John Polstra Cc: julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: personal use of softupdates References: <199806142230.PAA00726@austin.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199806142230.PAA00726@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:30:48PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:30:48PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > In article , > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > and use tunefs -n enable > > on the unmounted filesystem to enable it. > > Is there some tricky way to do this on the root filesystem without > having to boot from a floppy? Root is mounted even if you boot > single-user, so tunefs says "device busy" if you try to use it on > the block device. It's possible to use it on the character device, > but then the change doesn't stick. If you boot single user and are mounted read-only (which you will be assuming you are coming up from a clean shutdown) do this: sync sync tunefs -n enable /dev/rsd0s1a That should do it. I've done this on a couple of systems and its been fine. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message