Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:24:35 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Enabling soft updates via SSH Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205201123380.13877-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5d6cdc5da5b7.5da5b75d6cdc@mbox.com.au>
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On Mon, 20 May 2002, BSD Freak wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been able to enable soft updates by booting into single user > mode, But I remotely manage several servers via SSH and need to enable > soft updates on the / file system. A reboot is OK, but since I don't > have console access, single user mode is out of the question. I tried > a "tunefs -n enable /" while logged in via SSH and it gave me the > following, but it didn't work: > > tunefs: soft updates set > tunefs: cannot open /dev/ad0s1a: Device busy > > Any help would be kindly appreciated..... When the system is first booted, / is mounted read-only and is in a suitable state to enable softupdates on. Look at the top of /etc/rc - in particular, /etc/rc.early is what you're after. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk "No generalised law is without exception." A self-demonstrating axiom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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