From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 21 8:40:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 894FF15040 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02499 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:40:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:40:25 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912211640.RAA02499@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG chris wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > 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. That's correct. > actually, you can't enable it on a mounted disk, you must boot off of the > kern and mfsroot floppies That's not correct. It is enough if the filesystem is mounted read-only. For the root filesystem, the easiest way to accomplish that is to boot to single-user mode, as Michel Talon wrote. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message