From: Stephen McKay <sys...@detir.qld.gov.au> > 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. >
Well, this disk is 4G and has only one partition, containing both / and /usr, so I think I may benefit from softupdates. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
