From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 21 18: 9:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685AC14DE7 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:09:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from williamsl@Home.Com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19991222020924.BTVT17996.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE> for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:09:24 -0800 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:08:34 -0500 From: Ben WIlliams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.34a) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Ben WIlliams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <9880.991221@Home.Com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: SOFTUPDATES In-reply-To: <199912212240.JAA01550@lightning.itga.com.au> References: <199912212240.JAA01550@lightning.itga.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tuesday, December 21, 1999 How far back is "used to"? I have a 3.2-RELEASE box that I tried booting into single-user mode both via `shutdown now` and 'boot -s' and couldn't get it to enable soft updates on /. When I did `shutdown now` it would complete the `tunefs -n enable rwd0s1a` but when I remounted / (still in single user mode) it would not keep soft updates enabled. When I tried it earlier today (it's at a remote site now that takes me an hour to get to) I tried from "boot -s" and managed to get rwd1s1e (/usr .. this box only has / and /usr mount points on different physical IDE drives) to stay enabled but it refused to even set the bit on rwd0s1a even though it was mounted RO. Do I need [br]oot & fixit disks? -- Ben [too much uptime for a human body] Williams mailto:williamsl@Home.Com Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 5:40:49 PM, Gregory Bond wrote: >> 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. GB> To be fair to chris, the ability to enable softupdates on RO partitions is GB> relatively new. To turn softupdates on for /, you _used_ to have to boot from GB> a floppy/CD; nowadays boot -s is enough. GB> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org GB> with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message