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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:31:50 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
Cc:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com, leifn@neland.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy 
Message-ID:  <199907191931.MAA00741@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:05:06 EDT." <199907191505.LAA24870@lor.watermarkgroup.com> 

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> >     If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you should
> >     be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot. 
> > 
> > 					-Matt
> > 					Matthew Dillon 
> > 					<dillon@backplane.com>
> > 
> It's a little bit simpler than that: in single user mode, tunefs -n enable /
> no reboot is necessary (tunefs reloads the fs after it makes changes on disk).

Unfortunately it doesn't first check to see if the fs is already loaded 
(so the reload generates a scary error message on all the other fs'es).

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