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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
