From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 21 14:41: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [192.83.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B0F15573 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:40:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA25906; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:40:50 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01550; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:40:50 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199912212240.JAA01550@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: "Art Neilson, WH7N" Cc: chris , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:02:19 -1000. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:40:49 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, I did the same way Michel did, about 3-4 months ago. > Worked fine for me I didn't have to boot off any special > diskette or anything, just boot into single and tunefs the > root filesystem. To be fair to chris, the ability to enable softupdates on RO partitions is relatively new. To turn softupdates on for /, you _used_ to have to boot from a floppy/CD; nowadays boot -s is enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message