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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:01:43 -0600
From:      "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1012867303.6b8598@mired.org>
To:        Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5
Message-ID:  <15448.35175.460453.211029@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <76760960@toto.iv>

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Varshavchick Alexander <alex@metrocom.ru> types:
> 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?

False. To make softupdates work, all you need to do is run
"tunefs -n enable" on the file system while it is unmounted or
mounted r/o.

	<mike
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