Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:21:28 -0700 (MST) From: chris <chris@aepnet.com> To: Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912210919170.19435-100000@hyperion.aepnet.com> In-Reply-To: <19991221155429.B83918@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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actually, you can't enable it on a mounted disk, you must boot off of the kern and mfsroot floppies (and if you're without a net connection to another machine, you'll need the fixit floppy (does it have tunefs on it?)) -- chris On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Michel TALON wrote: > To enable softupdates on / is very simple: boot -s at the loader prompt > and do > > tunefs -n enable / > > It is my understanding that if you forget to enable softupdates in > kernel conf the flag is simply not recognized and causes no trouble. > > Finally if you are on a rather small disk, for example on a laptop, > the config which does not loose space and allows occasional big files > in /tmp etc. is to put everything in / flatly. I have done that and > never encountered any problem. > > -- > > Michel TALON > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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