From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 27 20: 1:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail0.mia.bellsouth.net (mail0.mia.bellsouth.net [205.152.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434F71536D for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from otterr@bellsouth.net) Received: from bellsouth.net (adsl-77-245-65.mia.bellsouth.net [216.77.245.65]) by mail0.mia.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id XAA18734 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:01:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3867EE89.D806A0B7@bellsouth.net> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:56:09 +0000 From: Otter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: softupdates and fsck References: <199912271337.FAA14591@netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stan Brown wrote: > i am going to set up a couple of my machines to run softupdates. Do I > need to change anything regariding runig fsck on reboot? If so where do > i change it? Nope. Just install it and make sure that you have kernel support for it. After that, you should be ready to enable it. You'll find that softupdates makes the filesystem a little more forgiving in the event you should have one of those unclean shutdowns. My only question concerning this would be the enabling of my / partitition... since the slice should be unmounted when you enable it. Can this be done from a live CD? -Otter > Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atlanta Ga. > -- > Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! > Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer > (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message