Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 16:24:28 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: randal@comtest.com Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, dinesh@alphaque.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD now runs in 4MB! Message-ID: <199808052324.QAA01650@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 12:23:26 -1000." <199808052218.MAA04115@oldyeller.comtest.com>
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> BTW, I also have noticed something odd. When booting from floppy with a > write protected disk, two write protect error messages comes up when just > mounting the floppy. Why is that? Does mounting the floppy cause a > write to it? This is not good if every time it boots it writes to disk. > This can reduce the life on a IDE Flash drive. Mount the filesystem readonly (-o ro). > I do not notice any write protect errors when mounting from a standard > FreeBSD system only from PicoBSD. If you're mounting as the root filesystem, it's likely that stuff in /dev/ is having its atime/mtime updated. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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