On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:45:27 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Environment is FreeBSD 7.2 i386 > > I have a Berkeley FFS filesystem that is mounted ro at boot time. > > If I do a 'mount -u' to make it writable, it _is_ made writable, but > "soft-updates' is also set. Incidentally, does anybody know _where_ > the 'soft-updates' optioon is documented?? I've looked evereywhere I > can think of, brute-force grepped wholee sections of > the /usr/share/man directory tree, all without succeess. > > If I use 'mount -u -r' to return it to the readonly state, > 'soft-updates' is *still* set. > > _HOW_ do I make'soft-updates' go away on a mounted filesystem ??
It's set because sysinstall uses newfs -U by default for non-root filesystems. You can turn it off with tunefs, although I don't see what difference it makes if it's mounted ro. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
