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From: [e-mail] (Craig Spannring)
Subject: Re: How to do 'tunefs' on '/'
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (MARK ROMAN MACH) writes:
>>How can I do 'tunefs' on '/'.
>>
>>The manpages says, that the tuned filesystems must be unmounted.
>
>    My man pages say otherwise:

I don't have a NeXT handy, but I'd be willing to bet their tunefs will
only work on unmounted file systems.  If I really wanted to tune the
root file system I'd create a file system on another partition that had
all the proper /dev entries and /etc files and a copy of unix that
would boot from that partition.  Then boot the system using that as
your root partition and you should be able to use tunefs on the
original root partition.

BTW-  If anybody would be willing to donate a NeXT to me, I'd be happy
      to see if that method works.  :-)

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