Name: Anonymous 2009-01-09 1:14
The on-line manual pages of the original
Bugs:
This program should work on active and mounted file systems, but it doesn't. Because the superblock is not kept in the buffer cache, the program will only take effect if it is run on dismounted file systems; if run on the root file system, the system must be rebooted.
You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.
tunefs, like all Berkeley commands, ended with a "Bugs" section. In this case, it read:Bugs:
This program should work on active and mounted file systems, but it doesn't. Because the superblock is not kept in the buffer cache, the program will only take effect if it is run on dismounted file systems; if run on the root file system, the system must be rebooted.
You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.