From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 10:33: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2BCC14D47 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:33:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 16063 invoked from network); 7 Mar 1999 18:32:47 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 1999 18:32:47 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990307103121.00ab3280@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 10:32:43 -0800 To: "Mark S. Reichman" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Sofupdates - which partitions make sense In-Reply-To: <36E2BAEE.9687F415@borg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:44 AM 3/7/99 , Mark S. Reichman wrote: >I currently have softupdates happening on /var and /usr. >Should I also enable it for the / partition? If so, how >does one do that since the partition can't be mounted while running tunefs? >Also, since the / partition rarely gets written to, does it make sense >to enable softupdates on it? This is just a guess, since I haven't ever used softupdates. Could you start up in single-user mode and leave / mounted read-only, and then try tunefs? --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message