Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:25:51 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: personal use of softupdates Message-ID: <19980614182551.39828@mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <199806142230.PAA00726@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:30:48PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980613135848.5313A-100000@current1.whistle.com> <199806142230.PAA00726@austin.polstra.com>
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On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:30:48PM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.3.95.980613135848.5313A-100000@current1.whistle.com>, > Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> wrote: > > > and use tunefs -n enable > > on the unmounted filesystem to enable it. > > Is there some tricky way to do this on the root filesystem without > having to boot from a floppy? Root is mounted even if you boot > single-user, so tunefs says "device busy" if you try to use it on > the block device. It's possible to use it on the character device, > but then the change doesn't stick. If you boot single user and are mounted read-only (which you will be assuming you are coming up from a clean shutdown) do this: sync sync tunefs -n enable /dev/rsd0s1a <IMMEDIATELY PRESS RESET> That should do it. I've done this on a couple of systems and its been fine. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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