> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ben WIlliams wrote:
>
> > Tuesday, December 21, 1999
> > So that's a "Yes you need [br]oot & fixit"? (I actually tried it
> > with wd0s1a too and got the same effect.) I'll just take my disks next
> > time I go up to see the router/webserver/mailserver(pop&smtp)/
> > pain-in-my-ass box and be done with it.
> >
> > Thanks for the input.
> >
>
> No, you just need to use the correct device. I just did a server today,
> I booted single user and turned softupdates on for ALL filesystems,
> including root.
Just in case nobody has noticed, you can pass a mountpoint as an argument
to tunefs and it will (mostly) correctly guess the device (by reading
/etc/fstab).
ie. one says tunefs -n enable /usr
rather than guessing at which device to use. Much more robust.
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