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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:05:37 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "brian j. peterson" <rbw@myplace.org>
Cc:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org
Subject:   Re: problem with chflags
Message-ID:  <20010601140537.A24948@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010601135419.E30589@malkavian.org>; from rbw@myplace.org on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:54:19PM -0700
References:  <20010601100025.C30589@malkavian.org> <200106012006.NAA17049@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20010601135419.E30589@malkavian.org>

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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:54:19PM -0700, brian j. peterson wrote:
> correct me if i'm wrong, but shutdown(8) with no arguments should get the
> system into single user with all the filesystems still mounted and allow
> the 'make installworld' command to run without having to mess with
> mounting/remounting filesystems.

This will get you to single user but the reboot step is absolutly
critical if you want you're system to complete the installworld every
time.  To do an installworld safely, you must be running a new kernel
because the newly installed binaries may contain code that uses new
kernel features.  This won't happen every time, but it has happened in
the past and UPDATING is generally supposed to be conservative.  If we
really need to support people who don't know what to do in single user
mode, the correct thing is to add instructions to do:

fsck -p
mount -a

after the reboot into single user mode.

-- Brooks

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