Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:10:35 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'mount -u' stumper Message-ID: <20110622131035.6b773e6a@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <201106221145.p5MBjRwb057115@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201106221145.p5MBjRwb057115@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:45:27 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Environment is FreeBSD 7.2 i386 > > I have a Berkeley FFS filesystem that is mounted ro at boot time. > > If I do a 'mount -u' to make it writable, it _is_ made writable, but > "soft-updates' is also set. Incidentally, does anybody know _where_ > the 'soft-updates' optioon is documented?? I've looked evereywhere I > can think of, brute-force grepped wholee sections of > the /usr/share/man directory tree, all without succeess. > > If I use 'mount -u -r' to return it to the readonly state, > 'soft-updates' is *still* set. > > _HOW_ do I make'soft-updates' go away on a mounted filesystem ?? It's set because sysinstall uses newfs -U by default for non-root filesystems. You can turn it off with tunefs, although I don't see what difference it makes if it's mounted ro.
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