On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>:Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I have to
>:either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this machine?
>
> If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should
> be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot.
I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete
behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't
gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I recommend
people leave root alone.
Stephen.
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