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Subject: Re: personal use of softupdates
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Perhaps this is out of my league by quite a bit, but how about writing a little program to find and modify the in-core superblock, as per something like what disklabel can do? (I think...)

-Brian


> the reset shouldn't be needed but unmounting a readonly partition
> still writes back the superblock.. (and upgrading includes a pseudo
> unmount.)
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, John Polstra wrote:
> 
> > [Enabling softupdates on root filesystem]
> > 
> > > boot single-user
> > > tunefs raw device
> > > hit reset
> > 
> > Thanks.  Makes perfect sense now that you spell it out.
> > 
> > John
> > 
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