Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:08:34 -0500 From: Ben WIlliams <williamsl@Home.Com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: SOFTUPDATES Message-ID: <9880.991221@Home.Com> In-Reply-To: <199912212240.JAA01550@lightning.itga.com.au> References: <199912212240.JAA01550@lightning.itga.com.au>
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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?
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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.
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