On 15-Dec-00 flag wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
>> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001211 11:50] wrote:
>> > Hi, is there anything wrong with enabling softupdates
>> > on my / partition?
>>
>> Yes and no.
>
> uhhhm....anyway i'm unable to set softupdates on / cause tunefs needs a
> umounted partition and / is always mounted...
Umm, if / is mounted read-only you can tunefs it. i.e., in single user mode
after boot, or drop to single user and use 'mount -o ro -u /' then do the
tunefs. However, it doesn't buy you much on /, and there is still some risk
with it, so I'd not recommend it for /.
> how have you done it?
>
> thanks
>
> Paolo
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