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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 1995 08:19:47 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: Things are looking up :-)
Message-ID:  <199503140719.IAA01290@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199503140034.QAA00430@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 13, 95 04:34:12 pm

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As David Greenman wrote:
> 
> >> time which is very CPU intensive. Use the command "tunefs -m 8 /dev/r..." on
> >> your (unmounted) filesystems to change it.
> >        ^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >What will happend when i do this on a mounted fs?  I hope the worst is
> >it will only take an effect at the next re{boot,mount}, yes?
> 
>    It won't have any effect on a mounted FS.

Unfortunately (for me:), Stefan was right: the superblock back-up at
umount time discards the modification again; i had to go single-user
in order to get it right.  (My original hope has been: `Do it now,
so you don't forget it.  Will be in effect after next reboot.')

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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