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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:14:35 +0100
From:      Stanislav Grozev <tacho@factline.com>
To:        Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5
Message-ID:  <20020130181435.GA40077@meerkat.dungeon>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201301932010.13294-100000@apache.metrocom.ru>
References:  <20020130095919.B26823@polands.org> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201301932010.13294-100000@apache.metrocom.ru>

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:35:25PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> Hi people,
>=20
> So to make softupdates work, the partition should be reformatted under
> 4.5, which means that after an upgrade from an earlier FreeBSD version
> (without disk reformatting) the soft updates will not work, is it true?

on the contrary, you just need to enable them - boot in single user
mode, and for every partition that you want them enabled type

	tunefs -n enable /dev/whatever-device-entry

be SURE that the partition is NOT mounted (thus, the single user mode)

-tacho
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