Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:34:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: personal use of softupdates Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980614153302.6576A-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199806142230.PAA00726@austin.polstra.com>
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boot single-user tunefs raw device hit reset On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, John Polstra wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.3.95.980613135848.5313A-100000@current1.whistle.com>, > Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> wrote: > > > and use tunefs -n enable > > on the unmounted filesystem to enable it. > > Is there some tricky way to do this on the root filesystem without > having to boot from a floppy? Root is mounted even if you boot > single-user, so tunefs says "device busy" if you try to use it on > the block device. It's possible to use it on the character device, > but then the change doesn't stick. > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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