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Date:      Sun, 14 Jun 1998 15:34:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: personal use of softupdates
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980614153302.6576A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806142230.PAA00726@austin.polstra.com>

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boot single-user
tunefs raw device
hit reset
 
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, John Polstra wrote:

> In article <Pine.BSF.3.95.980613135848.5313A-100000@current1.whistle.com>,
> Julian Elischer  <julian@whistle.com> wrote:
> 
> > and use tunefs -n enable
> > on the unmounted filesystem to enable it.
> 
> Is there some tricky way to do this on the root filesystem without
> having to boot from a floppy?  Root is mounted even if you boot
> single-user, so tunefs says "device busy" if you try to use it on
> the block device.  It's possible to use it on the character device,
> but then the change doesn't stick.
> --
>    John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
>    John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
>    "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth
> 


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