From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 9 7: 8:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from warsaw.scl.ameslab.gov (warsaw.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.137.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB83E37B403 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 07:08:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kparz@localhost) by warsaw.scl.ameslab.gov (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f99E94804945; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:09:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kparz) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:09:04 -0500 From: Krzysztof Parzyszek To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: fergus Subject: Re: softupdates Message-ID: <20011009090903.A4908@warsaw.scl.ameslab.gov> References: <20011009144551.D1449@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011009144551.D1449@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk>; from tofergus@yahoo.co.uk on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 02:45:51PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 02:45:51PM +0100, fergus wrote: > > will i need to remake all file systems with -U to enable softupdates ? No. The safest way to do it is to umount the filesystem and use tunefs -n enable. In case of the root filesystem (which is usually not recommended to have softupdates enabled on it), you can try remounting it as read only and using tunefs -n enable. > how can i check whether softupdates are enabled on a fs ? mount Krzysztof To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message