From: Stephen McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Saturday, 17th July 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> >:Is there any way to force softupdate on on a mounted system, or do I
have to
> >:either move the / to another machine, or move a floppydrive to this
machine?
> >
> > If you boot single-user, root will be mounted read-only and you
should
> > be able to 'tunefs -n enable /dev/rda0a' and reboot.
>
> I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete
> behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't
> gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I recommend
> people leave root alone.
>
Well, this disk is 4G and has only one partition, containing both / and
/usr, so I think I may benefit from softupdates.
Leif
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